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When Hurricane Floyd struck eastern North Carolina, you could say that Janice Bailey was at the wrong place at the right time. A retired nurse and Red Cross volunteer from Maryland, Janice was just visiting with family in Kinston when floodwaters forced her to evacuate her niece's home. But rather than return to Maryland, she ended up staying for months to volunteer her time and help her family. She was interviewed by telephone in December 2002.

"I helped out down at a local church for a while, distributing clothes to people that needed them. We had these big vans of clothes and supplies that people had collected from all over. One man who was there got a jacket out of a box, and there was a note pinned to the collar. It said something like, 'God bless you. Look in pocket.' In the pocket was an envelope with two folded-up twenty-dollar bills. That poor old man started laughing and crying at the same time."