“Knowing that there are people who literally want to go help a complete stranger,” she said. But that was followed by another Good Samaritan, and then two more. She didn’t even expect a single social media user to go to her grandparents and report so quickly. ![]() “They are terrified and both have health issues,” she posted in the group along with her grandparents’ address. She turned to a Facebook group of more than 400,000 people, #HurricaneStrong. “We were all in pure panic mode, sitting in Indiana, crying, feeling helpless,” Foltz said. Her 75-year-old grandmother couldn’t swim. ![]() But when the 35-year-old Indiana woman heard from her mother, she learned that they had not only stayed, but the water flooding their home was almost chest-deep with the fridge floating. ![]() Hannah Foltz had assumed her grandparents, Janet and Larry, evacuated from their mobile home in Naples. In TikTok videos and Facebook posts, families share their desperate pleas and strangers answer their pleas, even as local officials urge people to use official channels for help. Many people whose loved ones remained on the way to Hurricane Ian are participatory rescue efforts as they grapple with the powerlessness of waiting and not knowing.
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