The kindness of Neighbors
Posted by Juanita on 10/4/2022, 6:11 am
After the storm was over and was heading to the north, we all came out of our homes to view the scene left behind. There was, of course, the ravages to the trees with several large pine trees lying across the street I live on. Some of the neighbors who had chain saws got busy cutting them into sections that could be moved out of the street using several of their trucks. My own yard was a mess with branches covering most of it. But, how thankful I was that I had hired a tree man come out less than a month before and trim back a lot of the trees in my yard. It wasn't cheap, but gosh, it was after the storm passed and there was no whole trees down in the yard, just a lot of branches. I tried clearing some of them myself and had two fair-sized piles, but by then my bad knees refused further abuse and I called a tree removal company to finish the job for me. The next morning as I was having my cup of coffee, I heard a noise outside and saw my neighbors outside dragging limbs to the curb. I went outside and thanked them and told them I had called a tree clean-up company to remove the mess. They laughed and told me to "save my money". Love their hearts, they cleaned and raked and soon my yard was back to normal. I was deeply touched, deeply touched by their kindness, but not that surprised, because the people of our wonderful State know that we have hurricanes, and sometimes they are going to hit our neighborhoods. So, when they do, we all help our neighbors when it happens. I love my State and although we have people here from everywhere, when disaster happens, we stand together in rising from the debris and chaos of these storms to claim our neighborhoods again so that our lives will get back to normal. The parts of our State that was hit the hardest will rise again, it will take time, but it will happen. This is not the first time our people have faced disaster. These are the wonderful people who crawled out of the debris of Hurricane Andrew and rose again. They will do it again!
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