The clean-up process is really just beginning for some families in Goshen. The realization of what once was is more clear as debris is cleared.”Everything is getting more empty now so it’s a little bit easier to navigate through all the big messes in the house,” says Brittany Doan. This is day two of clean-up for the Doan family of four. Duke Energy crews working alongside families to help restore power.”We’re not allowed back in the house here soon so we got to get whatever we can out,” she said.A tarp now covers what’s left of her roof, the damage inside much worse than outside.”So all of our windows are busted, the roof on this side, that side, my son his room the inside of his room is completely done for. The fridge, the stove, the oven — it’s all done. Like the oven is ripped off, we went to open it and it just fell on the floor. All of our stuff is just everywhere. I had stuff that was in my kitchen end up in my bedroom,” Doan said. Less than three miles down the road, Katelyn Latchford recounts the moments she realized this was no routine thunderstorm. RELATED: “I wasn’t even concerned for my safety I was concerned for my kids,” Latchford said.Hearing thunder roaring, she gathered everyone in her bedroom and that’s when three trees fell on her trailer. “I grabbed them and ran and put them in my car. I started driving away and you couldn’t even see anything anyways because the rain was coming down, trees was coming down left and right,” Latchford said.Latchford realized she was driving right into the storm to get to safety at her sister’s place. “We lost most of our essentials and everything because all of our clothes and everything were in the backroom, it’s kind of like a spare bedroom so I just kept stuff back there,” she said.Looking at half her trailer completely destroyed, she will have to relocate. As both families are at a loss of words as they try to put the pieces back together, they cannot help but be grateful.”We’re good where we’re at, you know, at least thankful for what we do have left,” Latchford said.”This is the best community for this, too. I don’t want to say happen to, but if there was a community for it to happen to this is the one where people are just going to band together and actually work together to get things done,” Doan said.Clean-up efforts will continue into the weekend. Crossroads East as well as donations from New Richmond will make their way here with Matthew 25 Ministries.
The clean-up process is really just beginning for some families in Goshen.
The realization of what once was is more clear as debris is cleared.
“Everything is getting more empty now so it’s a little bit easier to navigate through all the big messes in the house,” says Brittany Doan.
This is day two of clean-up for the Doan family of four.
Duke Energy crews working alongside families to help restore power.
“We’re not allowed back in the house here soon so we got to get whatever we can out,” she said.
A tarp now covers what’s left of her roof, the damage inside much worse than outside.
“So all of our windows are busted, the roof on this side, that side, my son his room the inside of his room is completely done for. The fridge, the stove, the oven — it’s all done. Like the oven is ripped off, we went to open it and it just fell on the floor. All of our stuff is just everywhere. I had stuff that was in my kitchen end up in my bedroom,” Doan said.
Less than three miles down the road, Katelyn Latchford recounts the moments she realized this was no routine thunderstorm.
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“I wasn’t even concerned for my safety I was concerned for my kids,” Latchford said.
Hearing thunder roaring, she gathered everyone in her bedroom and that’s when three trees fell on her trailer.
“I grabbed them and ran and put them in my car. I started driving away and you couldn’t even see anything anyways because the rain was coming down, trees was coming down left and right,” Latchford said.
Latchford realized she was driving right into the storm to get to safety at her sister’s place.
“We lost most of our essentials and everything because all of our clothes and everything were in the backroom, it’s kind of like a spare bedroom so I just kept stuff back there,” she said.
Looking at half her trailer completely destroyed, she will have to relocate.
As both families are at a loss of words as they try to put the pieces back together, they cannot help but be grateful.
“We’re good where we’re at, you know, at least thankful for what we do have left,” Latchford said.
“This is the best community for this, too. I don’t want to say happen to, but if there was a community for it to happen to this is the one where people are just going to band together and actually work together to get things done,” Doan said.
Clean-up efforts will continue into the weekend. Crossroads East as well as donations from New Richmond will make their way here with Matthew 25 Ministries.
