Hurricane Harvey Volunteers Who Met and Fell in Love While Helping Victims Get Married
When two volunteers headed to Texas after Hurricane Harvey hit in August 2017, the last thing they expected to find was love.Richard Gibbs, a Louisiana sheriff’s deputy, and Patricia Goddard, a Michigan accounting clerk, met while volunteering during the aftermath of the storm.For Richard, it was “love at first sight,” he told the Beaumont Enterprise.
“I was very interested when I first met her.
She just didn’t know.”Richard, a team leader for the Cajun Army in Hampshire, Louisiana, arrived “a day after the storm” in Southeast Texas, and stayed in the area to help longer than most search and rescue teams.