strange stories

An elderly couple was helped by one of our crews this week. They had stayed in their home through the storms. Their home was damaged, but luckily, they were not. A tree punched through the ceiling and roof of the back of their home. Most of the time when this happens, much water comes in. In their case, the place where the limb made a hole was directly over the bathtub... all the water that came in the house went straight down the drain.

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That sounded like smart luck, huh? Well there's always a counter-story...

Down in the southwestern most Parrish near Holly Beach, all but about two homes were left standing. One was a trailer that not even FEMA could explain why it wasn't destroyed. One other house actually survived outright. One habitable house out of 500! But when the cold snap came through a few days ago, the owner lit a fire in the fireplace... he didn't know that the chimney had shifted during the high winds and some of the fire jumped out from the chimney onto the roof and set the whole house afire so much that it burned the whole thing to the ground.

Dumb luck, that.