“Many of the homes here in Old North Dayton are only being protected by tarps. With the weather we’re seeing, it’s slowing down relief efforts,” he said. “We’re way behind with the schedule right now so we try to get it done as fast as we can.”
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Guzman said the amount of work they can get done in a day depends on the weather.
“We try to work with the weather and see if we can get some of the job done, but it’s really difficult,” he said. “Sometimes we try to sneak it in. If it’s going to rain in the morning, we try to get it in the afternoon. If it rains in the afternoon, we try to get it in the morning.”
One homeowner on Macready Avenue said the weather caused major damage to the inside of his house so his contractor was forced to put his roof on in the rain.
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“The wind got in the house and just tore everything up on the inside then the roof would start leaking and it gets your insulation wet, it’s just terrible,” Kevin Williams said. “The roofers that did my house, they stayed up in the rain and was putting it on cause they didn’t have no choice, they was so busy.”
Guzman says homeowners are getting frustrated because it’s taking contractors so long to get to every house, but they’re doing the best they can with the weather they’re given.
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