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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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water seeps in and causes
more damage.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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house when it fell overt.
“I’m not planting one
of those near my house
again,” he said.
Hulen said he plans to
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take the tree away.
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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
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more people on a waiting
list. He said the majority of
the trees were pine.
“All of the tree will get
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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. Jensen, 21, address not pro-
vided, for failure to present license
and driving without a license.
•Hermiston police arrested
Silverio Ibarra Covarrubias, 41,
address not provided, for failure
to appear.
•The Umatilla County Sheriff’s
Office arrested Holden Dean Holt
Smith, 22, address not provided,
for first-degree rape (forcible) at
the Gilliam County Substation.
•Oregon State Police arrested
Sally A. Ramirez Littlelight, 45,
no address provided, for driving
under the influence of intoxicants.
•The Morrow County Sheriff’s
Office arrested Debbie Lynn Jarrett,
31, of 74937 Estate Loop, Irrigon, for
frequenting a place were drugs are
used, possession of methamphet-
amine, selling drug paraphernalia
and supplying contraband. Dep-
uties also arrested Leobardo Jac-
quez III, 39, no address provided, at
the same residence for violating a
restraining order and frequenting
a place where drugs are used.
•A 9-1-1- call about a man
assaulting a woman led Stanfield
police to arrest Chad Everett
Bruce, 34, of 420 W. Coe Ave.,
Stanfield, for strangulation and
harassment.
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