LUMBERTON, N.C. -- A handful of volunteers are waiting outside the nondescript warehouse as an 18-wheeler with the oversized Duke football hemlmet emblazoned along the sides rumbles to a stop. A few men are wearing work clothes. A few others are decked out in Blue Devils garb.
"I thought you were a North Carolina fan," one volunteer teases.
"Not today," the other replies.
That's how it is throughout this region of flood-ravaged North Carolina these days. They're all on the same team. Rivalries disappear when someone's willing to chip in with some needed supplies.
Duke's equipment truck backs into a loading dock while a half-dozen members of the Blue Devils' football team -- all graduate students on an off week from classes -- pile out of a van to help unload the freight.