Devastated by floods, Stoney Creek residents seek answers
Take half a glance, though, and specifics start to stick out. A warped copy of
Many residents of this neighborhood are almost finished tearing their houses apart, numbly ripping out walls and floors and throwing away the small things people use to pass their time and the tools they use to earn a living. Most importantly, as they reach the end of the process of ripping their homes apart, residents want to know if they should rebuild.
"We need to get some real concrete answers as to what's going to happen here because it's like ground zero at this point and they've got to tell us are you going to be allowed to rebuild and who's going to insure you and then if you're not, how is it going to impact the rest of
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"This area has never been through anything like this. We've got to work with people that have dealt with it, and that's what we're working on," Bozeman said.
Wouldn't wish this on worst enemy
Brian and
"This is the dream,"
The Morris family doesn't have flood insurance. Why would they? When they asked, they were told their house, like many of their neighbors', isn't in a flood zone.
Now, the white building is a shell of its former self, all of the items that make a house a home spread across the front lawn, all of the material that makes it livable in the same pile.
Wednesday morning, a wooden chest stood near the house's front door, slightly apart from the rest of the family's possessions.
It contains the only possessions she received from him -- children's drawings, employment records from a career with
"It's still hard to to walk into the yard and look at it just sitting here," Morris said. "I can't throw it in the pile yet."
"Things like this don't happen to people that we know," Morris said. "They happen to people far off in other places."
The Morris family -- along with all of their neighbors -- is trying to figure out if they can risk their home again becoming one of those far off places someone else is watching on
"Our biggest fear is that we rebuild, we put all of our money in it and then it happens again," Morris said. "I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I never want to go through this ever again."
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