DeLAND, Fla. – A community is coming together to help an 80-year-old woman get a new wheelchair ramp and it’s all thanks to a man’s tweet.
Tuesday’s EF-2 tornado damaged parts of Jinny Bates’ house and destroyed her boyfriend’s wheelchair ramp.“He gets all out of breath very easily, he can’t stand the heat.
It takes a while to get his breath back. He’s on oxygen,” Bates said.The 80-year-old woman said she paid $400 for ramp last year and it's not feasible to pay for a new one."I put a new roof on and new windows and that kind of drained me," she said.Bill Bates is Jinny's nephew and is the man who took to social media hoping to find some help.