Roger Bailey said when she told him what the kiddie pool was for, he couldn’t believe it.
He had gone to her family’s home — a trailer half crushed by a fallen tree — to see how he and other disaster relief volunteers could help.
“The couple had three young children, and the father had done what he could to demolish the half that got crushed, and he covered the end with a tarp,” Bailey said. “So they were living in half a single-wide trailer — a living room, dining, master bedroom and master bath.”
And as he looked around their home, he saw a lot of damage, but the question that rose to the top was this — why was it so hot?
“The mother told me that their air conditioner was out,” Bailey said. “It was 100 degrees in that trailer, and I said, ‘How do you live? How do you go to bed at night?’ And she said, ‘Late at night, I fill up that kiddie pool, and the kids can cool off in it.’”
With tears in his eyes, Bailey told her that he and other volunteers would be able to get them a new air conditioner. The next day, he bought it with disaster relief funds and sent some electricians to hook it up.
“I talked to her the day after that, and she said it was a beautiful sight looking over and seeing her babies covered up in blankets,” he said.
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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.
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