It is a sad and terrible time for Globe-Miami after experiencing the unimaginable last week.
After four months of extreme heat, which left our landscape dry-as-a-bone for as far as the eye could see, nature played an awful trick on us in late September and answered our prayers for rain by sending in a late thunderstorm that rewrote our landscape and our lives.
Unleashing walls of water that swallowed washes and gullies it turned streets and highways into rivers, overtopped bridges, swept away cars, tore through businesses, took lives, and left mud and wreckage in its wake. The storm was a terror we could not have imagined.
As of our count on Sunday, more than 36 businesses are now closed ‘until further notice.’ The damage done to these local businesses is not just financial, which will be extensive, but also personal for people who have poured their lives into serving this community through their businesses and the connections that sustain them — and us — on a daily basis.
We are left to find our way through the muck.
But on Sunday, the skies had cleared and over 200 people of all ages were out with shovels, mud boots and muscle to help businesses in both downtown areas clean out the mud and debris, and sort through items that could be salvaged.
And, we got word that that over 1000 volunteers from the LDS church in Safford and Graham County will be arriving on Monday to help wherever help is needed.
Our community is strong, and recovery will come, even if we don’t yet know what that looks like.
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