After the Storm—An Unexpected Rescue
Melanie Palmer said, “When the hurricane [Helene] came through Valdosta, I was at my friend’s house. I have a manufactured home, and she has a regular house. She told me to come on over there so I would be safer. So, I spent the night there with my two little dogs. You could hear that wind on both sides of the house, you know, going, going through it, really bad.”
The next morning, Melanie Palmer headed back, praying her home had been spared.
Melanie explained, “The first thing I saw was all the trees. And I said, ‘Oh my goodness.’ And you couldn’t even see my house hardly, but I did see the roof.”
Her prayers for her home were answered, but her yard was full of uprooted and snapped trees. Living on her limited savings, she didn’t know how she would pay for them to be removed.
“They charge a thousand dollars a tree around here. I counted about 7 or 8 trees down. So, it was pretty bad,” said Melanie as she let out a nervous laugh. “I don’t have insurance on my home. They won’t insure it.”
Melanie would soon receive help from Operation Blessing!
Melanie said, “I didn’t expect anybody to get here as quick as they did. It must have been about twelve people, you know. And I didn’t realize that they had the equipment they had and were able to do so much work today. I said, ‘Oh, if they come it’s going to take a week,’ but I’m amazed that they just about got it done in one day. I’m an Operation Blessing fan now. I’m going to tell everybody! You all are the real thing.”
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