Socastee, SC (WBTW) – Member of the Socastee Brave football team and athletic department were busy on Wednesday morning. Many gathered to help their community and neighbors close to the high school and the Rosewood area. People there have been gathering their belongings, putting them in moving trucks, and getting ready to evacuate their homes as the Waccamaw River could potentially swallow their houses and the roads they travel up and down next week.
Socastee head football coach Doug Illing said:
“It doesn’t matter if you know them or not we are able to help them and that is our job to serve and help them for our kids to stop what they are doing in their daily lives to come out here and help people they don’t know. It’s an honor and a privilege to do that and I am very grateful to our kids that they are willing to do that.”
And resident Dorothy Ferguson was certainly happy to see the team come help her:
“I love them to death and all of my children graduated from Socastee High School so if we don’t go to a game and we are sitting here we can hear the noise over there so we get so excited about that and just to have those big healthy guys come out here and do all of this work for us is just a wonderful thing.”
