It's been three weeks since the explosion and those affected still find it hard to move forward. We first introduced you to George Sexton nearly a week after it happened. He was donating blood to help his Imperial Sugar coworkers.
George has worked at the refinery for 24 years and remembers the night of the explosion like it was just yesterday. "All I know is a big bang. It was pretty bad it took me about 25 minutes to get out of the mill because it was pitch black," George told us.
Thursday – WSAV caught up with George again, telling NEWS 3 you don't know what you have until it's gone.
George says he has dreams and even nightmares about the explosion. "It's hard. Three of the victims I knew very good and it's just – you dream about them. But faith in the lord will get you through it," says George.
That faith is what George loves most about Imperial CEO John Sheptor, calling him one of the best – if not the best CEO he's worked with in 24 years. "After the explosion, his main priority was the victims and their families and the second priority was his employees. And I think that is unbelievable," says George.
George went to the burn center in Augusta this week for the first time – visiting one of the victims. "When we were at his bedside talking to him, he did not want us to leave. He was wanting us to bring him some Krystals. And we couldn't do it," George says laughing. That laughter's been missing from the refinery since the explosion.
"We just have a good time in there. We laugh a lot," says George and he just wants those good times back. "All these people go to work and complain. Everybody complains every now and then about work. You don't know what you've got until you lose it. That's a fact because I miss it already," says George.
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