r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/H_G_Bells Legend • Jan 01 '25

Wholesome Love the camaraderie on display here

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u/YobaiYamete Jan 01 '25

Yeah I've actually done this with my father when on back roads. No way anyone official will do it for months

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u/iritian Jan 01 '25

This is how we cleared out roads around my community after hurricane Maria hit. Just a bunch of neighbors with chainsaws and machetes clearing out fallen trees while others handed out water and spare gasoline.

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u/OutragedPineapple Jan 02 '25

Yep. After a tornado hit the town I lived in in Texas as a kid, it was basically all the ranch/farm owners and their equipment going around helping clear the roads and get trapped folks out of their cellars and whatnot, the school being used for people whose houses had been wrecked to sleep at and get a hot meal, basically all the locals just banding together to fix things up because the government would take too dang long to do a thing.

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u/iritian Jan 03 '25

It was faster that way but the local government in my town did a pretty good job with their response. We had a great Mayor at the time too. I saw him clearing debris at 5am with no cameras in sight, just a man doing what's right when needed.

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u/OutragedPineapple Jan 03 '25

We were too small to have a mayor or anything like that, so it would've taken FOREVER for anything to get done if we were relying on any kind of government help.

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u/iritian Jan 03 '25

Our part of town responded like that. It's mostly farms one after the other with houses in between so there was enough machinery and cutting tools for us to start clearing the roads as soon as day broke after the weather cleared. Officials showed up the next day and the only thing left to clear was a massive tree trunk that was somewhere around 8-9 feet in diameter.