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their lives. For instance, the Rebouls escaped drowning only by climbing up onto their car and thence	onto	the roof	of their home,	and Scottie
Thomson pulled his wife Doris to safety up into the attic through a hole he cut in the ceiling during the storm. The courage of such persons was heroic.
Other homes were simply made unlivable by Camille, like that of the Warren Sicks'. Few will ever forget when Warren thereafter was trying to put a	new	roof on	their home but	was having
problems getting the shingles to lay straight. His wife Agnes looking on said that she'd done enough sewing to know how to straighten things out, so to get her up there and she'd see to that. They pulled	her	up onto	the roof, and	this tiny,
crippled woman showed those "big," strong men how to keep shingles straight! Yes, that she did!
Some homes were merely filled with water and mud, like the Hills', and many expressed the opinion that the circumstances of the latter were the worst.
The church manse itself came through exceptionally well, except for being crushed in part by a large tree, and a number of refugees "camped" out there for some time until other arrangements could be made. In some cases this was not merely days or weeks, but months. As for the church, the only damage to the structure itself was a window which had to be replaced and a small puncture in another window in the front of the church which is still there today. Also, a large number of shingles were blown from the roof, and many trees were blown down, limbs, branches, leaves everywhere. Debris littered everything. It was an expensive and tiresome matter to restore the church to its proper status.
The Sunday afterwards, church was held as usual, and with an overflowing crowd. The only difference was that most of those attending were wearing cutoffs and/or rags that were worn and covered with mud. As John Hill later would put it, "I was in shorts, splattered from digging mud out of my house, and so were most of the congregation. Except for Norm Renshaw. He was dressed to kill, suit, tie, everything. The only one." But spirits were raised thereby, and they would continue to be,