ALS Walk among area events forced to cancel, postpone Saturday because of nor’easter

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Flooding, wind, rainfall unit organizers to telephone disconnected half-mile fundraising locomotion expected to gully hundreds to St. Augustine

The way for the ALS Walk was underwater connected Saturday, forcing the locomotion to beryllium postponed. (WJXT)

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Saturday’s bedewed and windy upwind conditions forced galore events astir the portion to cancel oregon postpone, including the ALS Walk successful St. Augustine.

“With the rain, the wind, the flooding, we made the close decision,” unpaid Mark Bailey said. “It was pugnacious connected the committee, connected the volunteers, connected the participants.”

The locomotion hits adjacent to location for Alecia Bailey, who organized the event.

“I mislaid my hubby 12 years agone to ALS, which is simply a frontal lobe, neurological illness and fundamentally the cells are weighted down and the neurons won’t work, truthful your limbs don’t work, you go paralyzed truthful it’s a horrific disease,” said Alecia Bailey.

Bailey and her existent husband, Mark Bailey, said they expected much than 300 radical to enactment successful the half-mile walk. The path, which would person started astatine Ripley’s Believe It oregon Not, was washed retired and underwater Saturday.

This is the 2nd twelvemonth successful a enactment the ALS Walk was changed. Last twelvemonth it was virtual owed to COVID-19. The Baileys said contempt the cancellation this year, their ngo to combat ALS continues.

“We volition ne'er halt fighting. We volition ever continue, nary substance what,” said Alecia Bailey.

Event organizers said they expect raising $160,000 this twelvemonth toward warring ALS. That would marque it the 2nd astir palmy ALS locomotion successful the state. They said it’s unclear if they volition reschedule the walk, but they volition support the assemblage updated.

Other cancellations/postponements:

Ware County homecoming: Postponed until Friday, Nov. 12.
Jacksonville Beach Cleanup: Canceled.
Walk to End Alzheimer’s Jacksonville: Postponed until Saturday, Dec. 4.
Art successful the Park: Postponed, nary day announced.
Red Bull Night Riders: Moved backmost to Sunday morning, starting astatine 10 a.m.