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Homeowners Undertake Tornado Cleanup

City Crews Help Clear Debris

POSTED: 3:46 pm EDT June 3, 2008
UPDATED: 6:50 pm EDT June 3, 2008

Days after the damage, homeowners on Indianapolis' east side are just beginning to pick up the pieces scattered when a tornado tore through their homes on Friday.

City trucks picked up wood debris on Catalina Drive Tuesday as more rain fell, hampering cleanup efforts, 6News' Derrik Thomas reported.

Timeka Seals' house was waterlogged, with fans blowing at full blast to dry it out. The roof was torn from atop two rooms of Seals' home.

Trees in her front and back yard were knocked over, and she's happy the city came by to pick up some of them.

"They have been out in this neighborhood and our community. They've really been awesome helping us get this stuff cleaned up and get everything taken care of," Seals said.

"We will continue to canvass the individual streets in the residential areas and remove that debris," said Bill Scott, a supervisor with the Department of Public Works, which had 50 trucks out Tuesday cleaning up the remaining mess.

It still isn't clear if bulldozers will roll at what is left of Janice Clifford's house, which was heavily damaged.

Rain poured into Clifford's home Tuesday morning -- a home in which she has lived for 30 years. It was pink-tagged by the Marion County Department of Health, marking it unfit for human habitation.

"We are going to have a better house, but I just don't know when and I don't know where," Clifford said. "If it's going to be here, that's fine. If it's not going to be, it will be somewhere where I'm supposed to be. I'm thankful for that."

Clifford said she is awaiting word from her insurance company.

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