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A8 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM COMMUNITY WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2015 Repair work continues in storm’s aftermath SAFETY: continued from Page A5 By JADE McDOWELL Staff Writer Damage from last week’s storm is keeping some businesses hopping as they try to keep up with the aftermath of the wild weather. “So far today our com- pany has looked at seven houses with roof damage,” Erica Tejada of Daniel Teja- GD 6LGLQJ DQG 5RR¿QJ VDLG Thursday. “Some were pret- ty bad, and others just had a few shingles fallen off.” The damaged roofs were the product of a storm that VZHSWWKH3DFL¿F1RUWKZHVW RQ1RYNLOOLQJIRXUSHR- ple and knocking out elec- WULFLW\ IRU PRUH WKDQ PLO- lion homes and businesses. In Umatilla County the wind was gusting at 65 miles per hour, which was more than enough to uproot trees and pull shingles off roofs. 7HMDGD VDLG WKH URR¿QJ business has been getting “a lot of calls” to repair damage caused by the storm. For people whose roofs were damaged, she said it is important to get LW ¿[HG ULJKW DZD\ EHIRUH water seeps in and causes more damage. “If it’s just a little dam- DJHZHFDQ¿[LWWKDWVDPH day,” she said. The problem is not ev- eryone’s insurance will allow them to get started on the damage right away. Claudia Dent has a hole in the roof of her Irrigon STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL Strong winds caused damage around Hermiston on Tuesday, including this roof on a home on southwest 12th Street. home but was told by her insurance company that their claim adjuster had a backlog of calls due to the storm and couldn’t get to her house until early this week. “To have a home that’s only nine years old and to have water leaking in is frustrating,” she said. Dent said she had just had a nice siding roof in- stalled over her deck when wind ripped the deck roof clean off the house, rolled it over her roof and blew it across the street, where it smashed into her neigh- bor’s fence and “broke into a million pieces.” “My neighbors were home eating lunch, and MEDICAL DIRECTORY PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY Call Today! 541-289-5433 1060 W. Elm, Suite #115, Hermiston, OR they thought an airplane had crashed. It was that loud,” she said. She didn’t realize until Thursday, when she woke up to a puddle of water in the master bedroom, that the debris had ripped a hole in the top of her roof. Fortu- nately one of her neighbors climbed up and located the hole for her, and anoth- er one came by later with a tarp and some bricks to cover the hole. Several phone calls to her insurance company lat- er, however, and she’s frus- trated that she has to wait to call a contractor after she knows what will be cov- ered. “They already told me WKDW WKH\ ZRXOGQ¶W ¿[ P\ neighbor’s fence because it was an act of nature,” she said. Dennis Hulen of Herm- iston is also waiting on a claim adjuster before he takes care of the missing shingles, broken deck and fallen tree that resulted from the storm. He said his insurance company was JRRG DERXW JHWWLQJ D ¿OH opened right away, but he was told that it would be few days before they got someone out to inspect the damage. He said he was grateful the damage wasn’t worse, however, since his 35-foot 'RXJODV ¿U PLVVHG WKH house when it fell overt. “I’m not planting one of those near my house again,” he said. Hulen said he plans to KDYH7UDYLV%DGRX[RI%D- GRX[ 0LOO DQG .LOQ FRPH take the tree away. %DGRX[ VDLG DIWHU WKH storm he put a notice on Facebook saying he would be happy to take any fallen trees for the rustic furniture he builds. As of Thursday he had cut up and hauled DZD\IRXUWUHHVDQGKDG more people on a waiting list. He said the majority of the trees were pine. “All of the tree will get XVHG´ KH VDLG ³1RWKLQJ will get burned.” The storm damage wasn’t limited to homes, ei- ther. City of Hermiston em- ployees have been working to cut up and haul away a tree in Victory Square Park that was uprooted in the storm. “It was a pretty mature pine tree, and it’s a shame to lose it,” Parks and Rec- reation director Larry Fetter said. •Hermiston police arrested Randy Mark Johnson, 45, address not provided, for failure to pay fines. •Hermiston police arrested Devin L. 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