A barbershop owner in Hendersonville, Tennessee says seeing his community’s response to the devastating tornado that damaged his shop gives him new faith in America.
“We were scared we lost everything. Until you see your phone and you see that many phone calls, there’s no fear here,” Steven Lightfoot, the owner of Hendersonville Barbers, told The Daily Wire a day after a tornado damaged his business. “You realize this is a group of people that want to make things right, and in the microcosm, everything you believe America is, or was, is still here.”
A structure from an adjacent building had flown into the side of his shop, causing glass to shatter and fly into the interior of the building. The barbershop was full of clients when the storm hit, with Lightfoot saying that roughly 12 to 15 employees and clients sought shelter in the business’s basement.
BARBERSHOP OWNER THANKS COMMUNITY AFTER TORNADO STRIKES BUSINESS
The tornado struck not only Hendersonville, but also several other cities in middle Tennessee, including Gallatin, Clarksville, and Madison, leaving at least six people dead and over 160,000 residents without power.
Lightfoot says he’s determined to not only get his own shop ready — “if we get the generator working tomorrow I’ll cut hair tomorrow,” he said — but also to make sure everyone else gets back on their feet.
“We’re good, we’ll make it,” Lightfoot said. “Everybody else will too, because when we’re done here we’ll help everybody else.”
“In a moment like this you realize exactly what kind of people we are. The success of this area of the country will be a testament to what we are as a people,” he said. “I don’t got fear or stress, it’s just going to take time.”
More footage of the destruction in Tennessee, where a deadly tornado struck just north of Nashville.
Reporter @SpencerLndqst toured the hardest hit areas in Hendersonville, where a state of emergency was just declared. pic.twitter.com/TPSRfv2542
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) December 11, 2023
He also recounted the outpouring of support from the community on a video on Instagram, saying that “more people than we could ever use” reached out to help Hendersonville Barbers in the aftermath of the storm.
Volunteers are gathering in Clarksville at a local church this week to assist in the effort to clean up the area.
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