Danielle & Brandon Adams need our help!

Evacuation orders were issued on April 26th as our rising rivers threatened Fort McMurray.  It was a day Danielle and Brandon won't forget.  They packed up yet again and were  evacuated along with 15,000 other residents.  Sadly, many of our residents are dealing now with insurance that doesn't cover overland flood.  Their beautiful home that was rebuilt after the 2016 Wildfire, has been damaged yet again. The flood damage is approx. $60,000  with insurance only covering $15,000 (which won't even cover one of Brandon's chairs).   

I felt helpless for them and their beautiful story.  We need to offer this gift of giving to this amazing family and help them get back in their home as soon as possible.  

Below is a beautiful message ( grab a box of  kleenex) by  Brandon Adams.  He wrote this Facebook message the day they returned home to access all the damage done by the flood.  Please read his heartfelt post!

SHARE this , LOVE on them and HELP if you can!!

Love their friend & fellow YMM Dance Mom friend!!! xo Angela

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Today my wife and I returned to our home in waterways. A community devastated once again... this time by a 1/100 year flood. My garage and basement were filled with river water over 5 feet tall inside. It’s hard to put into words how you feel to see the home you’ve created, and the majority of every material possession you’ve ever purchased destroyed.

I am unfortunately no stranger to life changing moments, that appear like they are too overwhelming to consider overcoming. In 2014 I was in an ATV accident that left me a paraplegic with no chance of walking again. As things were seemingly getting back to a new normal, and I was finally back home out of the hospital for about a year we had to evacuate our home fleeing from a wildfire in 2016. A wildfire that my entire city has to flee from, and that wiped out 90% of my community waterways. But once again. We put our heads down rebuilt / Reno’d and got through it. Then September 2019 comes around and I have another accident this time breaking my femur forcing me to slow down again. But bones heal. ( sort of ). And now this. 2020, covid 19, with a splash of flash flooding, extra dirty, shaken, not stirred.

My outlook on life and whats important is forever changing. I have been forced to learn the hard way, that this life is consistently inconsistent. It’s hard to describe what I was feeling today, I thought it would be anger, or sadness as I throw away everything I have every worked or saved for, and tear down my water logged interior Walls. But It was neither of those things. I felt a strange calm, maybe all this trauma has turned me into a numb psychopath?! Lol no, I think all this trauma has indirectly taught me that if you have good family, friends, and community you can get through your darkest times. And while if you look at you at my last half a decade or so you can say I have not been a particularly lucky man. But I have the BEST family and friends you can ask for. And
If that’s all that matters, then I’m pretty fu**ing lucky.

Today, while a hand full of friends and family were scrapping my house following this natural disaster, admits a pandemic outbreak of covid 19; you would think the moral would have been low. Gloomy faces, uncertainty of what’s to come for us in the air. But it wasn’t that. Every room there were people, there was laughter, comradery, and total understanding of what we may be going through. I didn’t hear a single complaint as friends were covered in mud, silt, gas, sewer, and who knows what else. And working from the time they showed up till we shut it down. Even friends who were working a 12 hour nightshift showed up to squeeze in a couple hours of hard dirty labour before their shift.

Everyone acting like what they are doing is no big deal. Well it really is.

I’ll never be able to put into words the thanks I have for my wife, my daughter, my parents, my brother, my friends, and my family.

But I can try.

Thank you all for being there literally every time I have ever called on you all for anything big or small. Thank you all for continuing to help in the future as we get through this most recent hurdle. And thank you for being there for whatever the hell comes next.

Thank you,

One Lucky Guy