Knowing he was going to be gone in a couple of days, Marc worked diligently all the next day at compiling stills and footage for the show and typing narrative to go with it. He was going through some stills from the East Coast hurricane when he ran across some he’d pulled from the AP news service. They’d been taken in a small town called Blessings, which was near Savannah, the city where Marc had been when the hurricane hit. Blessings was about an hour inland from Savannah, but the little town had suffered devastating flooding, and months later they were still in a healing and rebuilding mode.

He flipped through a handful of photos before pausing at one that was particularly startling. A huge tree limb had been driven into the side of a house by the wind, but it was the story that went with it that caught his attention.

The woman who lived in that house had been seriously injured when that happened. Not only had she been trapped, but she would have died from her injuries had it not been for a daring rescue by one of the townspeople.

There was another photo related to the same story that had been pulled from security footage at the local hospital when the woman was first brought in. The hospital had been operating at half-staff and running on backup generators when the rescuers arrived with the victim, and the photo illustrated the extreme danger they had put themselves in to get her inside.

One young man had used an enormous bulldozer to rescue her from the house where she’d been trapped and then driven it through floodwater to get her to the hospital.

The photo showed the driver being buffeted by the hurricane-force winds as he exited the cab with the woman in his arms. A few steps below him was an orderly from the hospital standing partway up the dozer, trying not to be blown off as he was reaching out to take the woman, and another waiting below him in bucket-brigade fashion to get the woman down from the dozer.

Marc saw their plan, and it was a gutsy one. That man who was holding her in the photo would have to maintain his stance against the wind, and the weight of the woman, as he turned to hand her down to the man below him, and the same danger would apply to him, and then the last man until she was safe. Even though the photo was a still shot, it captured the danger and the drama in the different expressions on the men’s faces. Marc couldn’t see much of the woman, but the info with the photo stated she was badly injured.

This would be a great piece to add to the hurricane section, Marc thought. I need to talk to those men…to understand what kind of courage it takes to brave something like that, and find out what happened to her.

He glanced at the text that had come with the picture and saw that it mentioned two names: Johnny Pine, who owned and drove the dozer to save her, and Lovey Cooper, the woman he’d saved. Marc clipped the photo to the information that had come with it and laid it aside.