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Newspaper Page Text/ Serving Camden County, Georgia Since 1894 Camden takes a beating from Irma; recovery efforts continue slowly Jill Helton publisher@tribune-georgian.com For the storm-weary survi vors in Camden County, there will be time to swap hurricane survival stories later. For now, three days after Hurricane Irma unloaded water and wind on southeast Georgia, recovery mode is well under way. It didn’t take long to hear the roar of chainsaws on Monday and Tuesday, as the residents who stayed behind grabbed their tools and got to work cleaning up their yards and neighborhoods — some of them banding together as in formal work crews. One of those work crews re sponded Monday to the home My eyes burst with tears each time I think about what you did for me today. Charlene Sears about receiving help from other citizens of Charlene Sears, executive director of The Salvation Army in St. Marys. She is usually one of the people providing disas ter aid to others, but on this day she had a disaster of her own. “A ‘ginormous’ oak fell on my home (Monday morning),” she said. As she sat there in disbelief looking at her house, a handful of people she knew showed up See STORM, page 2A Submitted photos Neighbors rallied across Camden to help each other. In Woodbine, Scott Henning on the tractor and Shane Gentry work to remove a down tree and clear the street with the help of about 10 other residents. In Shadowlawn, residents tackled a fallen tree together. 1 4 Poll What do you think about Kingsland’s proposal to increase its tax rate? Vote online at www.tribune-georgian.com and see last week’s results on page 5A. Index Storm coverage 2 Sports 9 Obituaries 3 Religion 10 Opinion 4 Classifieds 11 Upcoming events 7 Legals 13 Tribune & Georgian Volume 114, No. 37 © 2017, Tribune & Georgian, Community Newspapers Inc.

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