Kerice Daley points to the drum that she says was her tower of strength as she had held on to it and cried when she saw what Hurricane Melissa did to her house that was just completed two months before the storm struck last October.(Photo: Rosalee Wood Condell)
PETERSFIELD, Westmoreland — For years, Kerice Daley believed her father, Keith Daley, was dead. Meanwhile, he thought she had migrated and was living far beyond his reach. Then an unexpected chain of events brought them together after the devastation of Hurricane Melissa.
In the weeks following the October 2025 hurricane, Kerice was still grappling with the destruction left behind by the Category 5 storm. It had severely damaged her Petersfield, Westmoreland, home which she had only recently completed after years of sacrif
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