"This is the new house the good Lord built me this past year after the storm," Apison resident Arthur Bates proudly shows off his new home, glad to have a place to call his own again.
He lost his childhood home during the April 27th, 2011 tornado, a home more than a century old.
Bates wasn't home when the storm tore through his community, but he returned within minutes after it passed.
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