NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A Northwest Miami-Dade business owner is donating 100,000 pounds of sand to whoever needs it as streets and homes across South Florida continue to flood.
Owner Rudy Delamora of Rudy’s Ready Mix, located at 7301 NW 47th St., will be giving away sandbags starting at 11 a.m., Wednesday.
Andrew Duncan, who needed sand bags, said, “I was watching your newscast. I was eating some lunch, and I saw that you guys were giving away free sandbags here at Rudy’s, so I said, ‘Let’s go down there’ because you said no one was even here yet. We’re right across the Palmetto, so I figured what did we have to lose.”
Mike Chong also needed bags. “We were able to get a few bags yesterday and block the place up,” he said. “It prevented a good amount of the water from coming in. We still have some water inside. We’re just trying to add more layers to it because it’s bad.”
People were allowed to take 10 bags of free sand.
The sandbags will be available for free until supplies last.
Delamora said 1,000 bags will be filled with sand.
“We heard on the news it was getting flooded. We decided to go ahead and donate sand to everyone, doesn’t matter where you’re from.” he said. “We’re giving out 1,000 free sandbags plus we got 100,000 pounds of sand to give out the whole day.”
Each vehicle that arrives at the distribution will be able to take home 10 sandbags.
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