After last night's heavy rain and strong winds did damage across Acadiana, one Lafayette family is thankful to be safe after a large tree crushed their house just minutes after the storms began.
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) – After last night's heavy rain and strong winds did damage across Acadiana, one Lafayette family is thankful to be safe after a large tree crushed their house just minutes after the storms began.
Kimani McCoy says his family recently purchased the home with hopes to remodel and start a new chapter. "It's really unexpected, to be honest. 20 minutes is all it really took to take everything."
As McCoy was beginning his renovations, the storms would hit. McCoy says he was at work when he received a phone call from a neighbor saying his home was crushed. "I did come back to basically all my things just being gone and nowhere where to lay my head anymore. I don't even have a kitchen, not even a bathroom, nor a room. So, everything's flat smashed. So far, the only things I got left was probably some little trinkets and a little furniture. But besides that, nothing. Everything is water damaged."
As McCoy was planning out what was next for his family, an act of kindness from a stranger would alter the course of his day. Dewayne Soulter, owner of Twin Oaks Tree Service who was helping remove the tree, told McCoy his family has a mobile home they are willing to give the McCoy family and help them start over.
"Listen, if it'll help you, you can have it. We just get a mobile home over here in Lafayette or in Opelousas to come and move it from there to here. Once I get this cleared out, there's absolutely no charge at all. And we just want you to be blessed. Get back in a home. All right? Just remember to put God first," says Soulter.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help the McCoy family move forward.
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