Stephen Lamb, background, follows behind Timothy Skaggs as they lay down tar paper on a roof Friday. Crews worked on rebuilding homes and replacing roofs in the Bates Pointe neighborhood Friday morning.CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Tom Seymour looked out from the front porch of his Bates Pointe home Friday and watched as a builder’s crew laid blocks for the foundation of his son’s new home.
Theirs was an established community where some families had lived for decades, Seymour said.
“Some of them are coming back, but some say they won’t,” he said.
The ongoing work is part of the neighborhood’s recovery from the April 27 storms.
Debris cleanup crews, funded mostly by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, on Thursday cleared away mountains of roadside debris from what once were homes.