Family Cleaning Up After Flood.
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After two weeks of waiting for the flood waters to recede, Rebecca Jones can finally walk into her Dyer county home. “I was hoping that it wouldn’t have gotten in here as long or as deep as it did.” Jones suspects the water rose about 4 feet deep outside her home, and inside the water stood about 8 inches high, but even with the water now gone, Jones said it left a mark. “Mold, a lot of it. My house looks like an earthquake hit it.” The floors have buckled, making it difficult to walk around for Jones, and with no flood insurance, she said she is praying for a miracle. “Pretty much were homeless right now, I mean it’s messed up real good.” Jones is not the only one. Just down Highway 104 East, the newly remolded Junction Church of Christ said the water here rose only 3 inches high inside the building, but that was enough to ruin their renovation project from a year ago. “A lot of work, really depressing to look and see all the work that we did. We’re tearing down all that we’ve accomplished,” explained Pastor Kenny Chessor, of the Junction Church of Christ. The members of the congregation have not been able to meet at the church in three weeks. Pastor Chessor said Sunday will not be any different. “Soaked up on the sheet rock having to tear down the sheet rock now about 4 feet high.” Even though Pastor Chessor said he has plenty of help to clean up the mess, he worries about all the flood victims. “Watching it come up and get all of this, it has just been hard on everybody down here, the community, it’s tough.”
