They plan to return home Sunday or Monday.Dude, this is awesome!! You told me something small would show up but that's a TON of work! Very nicely done man! The company that owns the oil rig has contracted with them to stay a few days to help transport water and other essentials. But again, they have no plows or anything, so where there’s no plows, everything turns to ice,” Baddeley said. But if they were in Ohio, it wouldn’t have been as bad. So, that entire Circle K got wiped out in about two minutes.” Baddeley said.Įven for two guys from Northeast Ohio, they said the driving was rough. As we were in there, there were about 75 people that pulled in right there with us. “We got one pack of buns and a couple cans of soup. So they went across the street to a Circle K. They had pictures of a line outside a Brookshire’s grocery store that was supposed to open but never did. We wouldn’t know where to go,” Bishop said. I even told him that after we got through, I said I have never been this scared because if we had got stuck or gone off the road, we didn’t know anybody. “We came through back roads through the swaps and stuff. At one point, Interstate 49 through Shreveport was shutdown. They had pictures of a collapsed carport at an apartment complex and a jackknifed truck in the middle of the road. Can you get us these water tanks? We said, yes, we can,” Baddeley said.īaddeley works for Thoroughbred Energy Services of Lisbon, and Bishop was along to help. “We took heaters down and then they’re like well, hey, you guys are from Ohio, you drive through this stuff all the time. Jon Baddeley and Terry Bishop talked with 27 First News from a parking lot in Shreveport, where they had just dropped off heaters for men on oil rigs and were reloading water tanks to provide them with water.
Two men from Salem are in Shreveport, Louisiana on a mission to provide heat and water to men on oil rigs. At least 46 dead amid winter weather, power outages as storm moves east
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