photo gallery: Images after the tornado: Dexter residents salvage what they can, prepare to rebuild
Posted on Mon, Mar 19, 2012 : 5:29 p.m.
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Blue tarps cover several rooftops Monday as crews work to salvage and clean up tornado-damaged homes in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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Blue tarps cover several rooftops Monday as crews work to salvage and clean up tornado-damaged homes in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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A bathroom on the second floor of a Huron Farms home is exposed after tornado damaged homes in the subdivision in Dexter last Thursday. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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A chair and window blinds have been salvaged from a Huron Farm home torn apart by a tornado in Dexter. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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A worker wheels an appliance out of a garage before the rest of the house is demolished in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter on Monday. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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A memory book is seen on the curb, saved from a house in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter on Monday. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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A backhoe pushes through the front door of a home destroyed by a tornado in the Dexter subdivision of Huron Farms. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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Chris and Katie Cramer watch as their home is picked apart by a backhoe after it was destroyed by a tornado last Thursday. The Cramers and their young son Jack have moved to a nearby condo and will have to build a new home from the basement up. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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A toilet is seen as a backhoe demolishes the Cramer's bathroom in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter on Monday. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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A Michigan State flag is seen pinned over boarded up windows of a tornado-damaged home in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter on Monday. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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A sign looking for Apricot, a cat last seen before last Thursday's tornado, is posted on a bench in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter on Monday. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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People stand on the first floor of a home destroyed during last week's tornado in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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A toilet is all that remains of a destroyed in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter on Monday. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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Crews work to salvage and clean up tornado-damaged homes in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter on Monday. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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Crews work to salvage and clean up tornado-damaged homes in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter on Monday. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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Children painted a boarded-up garage door with messages and drawing of a tornado that damaged homes in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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Eight-year-old Carly Judit plays with a doll in the back of her tornado-damaged home in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter on Monday. Carly rode out last Thursday's storm with her mom, sister and grandparents in their basement. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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The spray painted message "We love Dexter" covers a boarded-up garage door in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter on Monday. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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Crews work on a tornado-damaged home in the Huron Farms subdivision in Dexter on Monday. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
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It has been four days since the EF-3 tornado hit Dexter, damaging more than 200 homes and destroying another 20.
Residents of the Huron Farms subdivision, one of the hardest-hit areas, continue to clean up their neighborhood. For many, that means salvaging what they can of their homes and preparing to build again.
AnnArbor.com Melanie Maxwell captured these images of the scene in Dexter on Monday.
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