MIDDLEBURY, Virginia (WCAX) – When a dangerous winter storm hit their farm in Middlebury, Erica and Mark Gutel hoped it wasn’t real.
“I had a horrible dream that a storm came and took everything away. It was a dream, I woke up and saw Erica’s face and she was white. I don’t think it was a dream,” said Mark Gutel. rice field.
Gutels owns and operates Kinder Way Farm Sanctuary, which rescues, adopts, and cares for animals from unfortunate circumstances. In some cases, return home. The last time we were in contact with them, they were being featured on national television. Now they say they are in trouble because the storm destroyed many of their structures.
“We lost the fencing. We lost all the pig structures. Mark Gutel said. As someone who has been in a storm, they know this feeling. The wood was split and rippling. “
When the storm hit, Mr. and Mrs. Gutel said they were overwhelmed by the wind. The family lost power for four days. But they are still working on their recovery. And as hard as it was, they say there’s at least one silver lining that made Christmas better.
“All the animals survived, we survived. It would be wrong to be ungrateful. Sometimes you don’t even know you know us.”
Neighbor Jenna Lasrocky’s family owns the land. She says she wants to help her family as much as she can. And doing so is also personal to her. “It’s very similar to how my father did it. We already had some sheep that he adopted. It was a way of fulfilling his dream for a farm,” Rusrocky said. I was.
As for next steps, Gutels says he plans to rebuild and continue.
“We have to go with it. That’s the key to everything. Yeah, it was a disaster. Yeah, we lost this. Who knows what’s going to happen next said Mark Gutel. If anyone wants to help and get involved and help rebuild.
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