Tornado House
Galey picks two statuettes - an angel and a frog - off a deck chair as he, Scales and Pitman trim the weeds and grass in the garden.
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Galey picks two statuettes - an angel and a frog - off a deck chair as he, Scales and Pitman trim the weeds and grass in the garden.
With machete in hand, Pitman gets rid of the many weeds that have taken over the garden since May last year.
A roll of paper burns and crumples in the fire started by Pitman and Galey.
Pitman throws a bunch of branches and twigs into the fire he and Galey started earlier in the morning.
Holmes smiles as he chats with volunteer Susan Scales, from The Vineyard Community Church, before he leaves for his doctor's appointment. Scales is a key volunteer in the clean-up and rebuild efforts, offering her help since the start.
Galey grimaces as he lifts and carries a wooden plank to the trash pile.
The former bedroom of the Holmes children - both of whom are now in their 30s - has been stripped down to its bare bones. According to Pitman's wife, volunteer Teresa McIntosh who attends Bloomington Baptist Church, the ceiling had to be completely disassembled because the team had found rodents living in it.
A wire snakes across the Holmes children's former bedroom. Volunteers said that along with extensive refurbishment of the room, the floor still had to be taken apart because the concrete had disintegrated into a powdery texture.
Disaster relief volunteers Mark Pitman, from Bloomington Baptist Church, and John Galey from The Vineyard Community Church, throw wires onto the trash pile in the garden. Pitman and Galey are two of numerous volunteers who are helping with the clean-up of Holmes' house that started two weeks before.
Volunteers Pitman and Galey move a container and place it against the back of Holmes' garage. According to Holmes, the garage was kept intact, because although its roof was punctured by tree limbs during the tornado, its trusses were left completely unharmed.
Disaster relief volunteers Mark Pitman, from Bloomington Baptist Church, and John Galey from The Vineyard Community Church, throw wires onto the trash pile in the garden. Pitman and Galey are two of numerous volunteers who are helping with the clean-up of Holmes' house that started two weeks before.
In the bedroom - the hardest hit of all the rooms in the house, a window sill has been plied apart, and the carpet is littered with debris and pieces of dried wall paint. "If I could talk to the tornado, I would have told it to behave," Holmes said. "They're like a 2-year old! They're children! That's why they're called the Terrible Twos!"
A vine grows against a window in what used to be Holmes' bedroom. Holmes had moved his bed into the former dining room due to the extensive damage to his bedroom.
Spider webs and dead insects lie between a jar and brush above the kitchen sink. For the year Holmes lived in his damaged house, he was accompanied only by his pet cat, Kiki. Holmes said that he was squeezing Kiki so hard during the tornado that he feared he might kill her.
Holmes walks through what used to be his living room. To rid the house of mold, the walls have been torn down and temporarily replaced with plastic sheets.
Mold-infested roof rafters are laid bare after disaster relief volunteers tore down walls and ceilings of a house damaged by a tornado in May last year. Home owner Don Holmes lived in the house for close to a year after the destruction, amidst hazardous mould, and rainwater that had leaked in.
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