Today we removed 5 dead standing trees at a home in Waveland. The gentleman who owns the property lost just about everything to Katrina. After Hurricane Hugo struck the Carolina’s in 1989 Bob spent 6 months volunteering - helping people repair their roofs and rebuild. It was nice to help out a disaster relief veteran. Bob said he feels like the time and energy he spent in his younger days after Hugo is now coming back to him in the form of volunteer support like ours. He is now relying on volunteer and charity support to rebuild his home and take care of his family. Samaritans Purse donated $6,000 in lumber to him and concrete for his slab that needs to be extended. While we worked to remove the trees Bob worked on the base of his new home.
He is retired, disabled and on a fixed income. We were able to remove three dead trees that threatened to fall through one of the trailers on his property – specifically the FEMA trailer where his 2 year old grandson sleeps at night.
He has been worried about the trees, one of which lost its top half during the last rain/wind storm passing through – luckily it fell away from the trailers. As he said “If you get up on one of the FEMA trailers and jump on the roof it will cave in, there is no way one of theses trailers would be able to handle a tree."
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