More than ever, a family in Minneapolis, North Carolina, is in need of our prayers and thoughts as they deal with an unfathomable tragedy.
In front of her husband Jamie and their 8-year-old son River, Melissa Guinn, a loving mother of four, was brutally carried away by the surging waters of Hurricane Helene.
Seeing how many people have been affected by the latest hurricanes in the US is incredibly tragic. The combined effects of two devastating storms—Helene and Milton—have claimed many lives and devastated innumerable homes.
The Guinns took refuge in their Minneapolis, North Carolina, home on September 27, but Hurricane Helene would quickly destroy their life.
When the storm caused destructive mudslides, the family’s home, which overlooked a river, would prove to be a disastrous position. According to Fox News, as the storm grew worse, the house started to crumble and tumble down the hillside.
Melissa Guinn, a mother of four, was tragically carried away in front of her husband and their eight-year-old son, River.
It had the sound of a cannon firing. Jamie said WRAL, “I just remember being crushed by the house falling all around me.” And I vividly recall hearing my small boy wail as I screamed for him. I discovered him as we dug through the home where it had fallen nearly all the way to the river.
But there was no sign of Melissa. “Baby, watch out!” was the last thing she said, echoing across the confusion.
“I believe Mommy is gone, Dad.”
Jamie bravely and desperately threw River away from the crumbling house and onto a riverbed. However, Melissa was gone by the time they turned around.
“I couldn’t hear my wife anymore, so I rushed right behind my little boy and called out for her,” Jamie recalled.
“I think Mommy’s gone, Dad,” he replied, glancing at me.
Jamie claims that he heard his wife yelling from the location of their former house, but she then disappeared. The spouse worries that she was pulled into the river by another mudslide.
Regretfully, the experience was far from finished.
For several hours, Jamie and River had to make their way through mud, rushing water, and debris in order to obtain assistance. Jamie sustained injuries, including a laceration to his skull and a damaged spine.
But the physical agony was nothing compared to the devastating revelation upon learning the unthinkable: his wife, his children’s mother, had been discovered dead. On October 7, 10 days after the terrible event, authorities retrieved her body.
The couple’s tenth wedding anniversary was only a few weeks away.
A caring mother and a loyal wife
He remarked, “I don’t think I even comprehend anymore.” “As I process everything that happened, I feel like I’m still in a state of shock. I believe I’m simply bringing myself to acknowledge all that did occur.
Brandon, Sebastian, Ethan, and River are the four sons Melissa leaves behind; she was a wonderful mother and a loyal wife.
“She was the best friend I ever had.” Without her, I truly don’t know how I’m going to survive. We were together every day. She was involved in every action I took, just like everyone else,” Guinn told Fox News.
Melissa was an excellent mother, wife, daughter, sister, and friend to everyone in her life, according to a GoFundMe page made by one of Jamie’s coworkers. She embodied the traits of a genuinely sweet spirit and was characterized as attractive, strong, passionate, and giving.
