[ad_1]
Before a fire demolished their city, Rowdy Shaw and Shanna Shaw had planned to host nine guests for Thanksgiving in their new home at Lucky John Road in Paradise, California. The Shaw had moved into the home four months earlier to get closer to the community resources for their daughter, Chelsea, Down's Syndrome and close to Mr. Shaw's employer, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. .
Like many families, they thought about what they needed to stock up and what to do before their guests arrived. They were eagerly waiting to sit down on a belly full of turkey and watch "The National Lampoon Christmas Holiday" as they do every year. But last Thursday, a week before Thanksgiving, they joined a caravan of evacuees leaving the city by bus and car, surrounded by a fire.
Their new house burned. By the time of Thanksgiving, instead of organizing a dinner, the family left their room at Residence Inn, in nearby Chico, to fill out documents with FEMA, request new social security cards and seek an act criminal at home. Like thousands of other displaced families, their annual traditions have been messed up, but they have regained some heat.
"We did not know there would be no food," Shaw said. "But we were hungry."
They delivered food to shelters, community centers and other places where fire victims gathered on Thursday to feast on Thanksgiving classics and farewells. share stories of loss, luck and courage.
In the former Sear's department store at Chico Shopping Center, the Shaw family sat down for a hot meal alongside 800 other people. "We feel pretty blessed," Shaw said.
Source link
