Kin, his friends rebuild home after June rain
He stepped over a broken downspout and into open water, up to his neck. His cousin helped fish him out.
"You couldn't tell there was a hole there. Then I knew the whole wall was gone because I was in it,"
Over 10 days,
"These are just all my friends over the years who pulled together and got it done," said
How much of
"Both of my sons do this type of work. They dropped what they were doing to get this back together,"
City officials posted a temporary pump on the street because they said the sewers couldn't handle the load of water.
They installed temporary supports to keep the house from subsiding further and removed the old wall using hand shovels and heavy equipment.
By the evening of
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