A man from Gulf Breeze, a city in northwestern Florida, who had little memory of Christmas because he was cold while raising his daughters, decided to pay water and electricity bills for several families for the third year in a row.
Mike Esmond, 75, returned to his Christmas donations last week, paying bills for 29 families totaling about $ 85,000 (€ 75,000), he said Friday. Local TV 10.
In December 2019, Mike Esmond, the owner of a pool cleaning company in Pensacola, paid 36 utility bills so that, as he did in 1983, he doesn’t run out of electricity, water, or gas at Christmas.
Subsequently, after donating about $ 12,000 (€ 10,593) over the past two Christmas seasons to pay for basic utilities for residents of Gulf Breeze, Esmond received a check from the A Nut Above campaign. [Uma Noz Acima]from Planters Confectionery for being a good Samaritan.
Since early 2021, Esmond has used $ 104,000 (€ 91,807) of check money to help Gulf Breeze families facing utility outages by paying 667 bills totaling approximately $ 80,000 (€ 70,621), details Location 10 …
“In other words, I paid all the bills for a period of time, from March to August, for six months in a row,” said Esmond, a veteran of the US Army.
According to the Weather Underground, in December 1983, temperatures reached minus 12 degrees Celsius, and Esmond and her three daughters were left without electricity and heating, as they could not pay bills.
“We had no heat that year, and it was the coldest temperature in Pensacola on record,” Esmond told the Pensacola News Journal, noting that ice hung on the windows.
