The Goodness of America
Bread Delivery on I-95
Desperate motorists stranded in a 50-mile backup on I-95 between Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia, for more than 20 hours without food and water after a snowstorm brought a foot of snow and icy conditions were treated to much-needed sustenance from a local bakery.
Casey Holihan and her husband, John Noe, a couple traveling to North Carolina, noticed a Schmidt Baking Company truck a few cars ahead of them. After 21 hours of waiting for conditions to improve so the vehicles could begin moving again, they decided to make a “long-shot” call to H&S Bakery, which owns Schmidt Baking Company, and ask if the driver could share some of the truck’s cargo with the trapped drivers.
Within 20 minutes, Chuck Paterakis, the co-owner of H&S Bakery and senior vice president of transportation, called Holihan and asked her to approach the Schmidt truck and bring her phone to the driver, Ron Hill, who, coincidentally, had just been praying about the same idea.
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