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Red Cross of Northeast Georgia helping flood victims in Louisiana
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Laura Allen, Red Cross of Northeast Georgia executive director, center, is pictured with Red Cross volunteers Nell Gauthier, left, and Fernando Lugo.
Simply getting to Louisiana to help flood victims was a long process for Jon Mayner. The American Red Cross volunteer from Toccoa said what should have been the final hour and a half turned into a five-hour drive. He and his partner would drive the Gainesville-based Red Cross emergency response vehicle until they got to water, get out of the vehicle and ask people how best to navigate to where the water wasn’t and then keep driving.