Tornado debris deadline

As the deadline approaches for cleaning up tornado damage, we talk to a 100 year old home owner who needs help clearing a yard.

Volunteers still needed this weekend all over.

For tornado debris cleanup is quickly approaching.

With just days left, and dozens of houses still in need, officials are pleading with the community to volunteer.

News 12's angela moryan spoke with a mother and daughter who say they were overwhelmed by the amount of work they couldn't do nor could afford to pay anyone to do.

Gladys mckee/standifer gap homeowner: "it was just devastating."

Gladys mckee turned 100 years old saturday.

She built her house on standifer gap road with her late husband, and was living there with her daughter edna camp when the easter's storm hit.

Edna camp/mckee's daughter: "devastating isn't even the word for it.

It was the most frightening thing i think i've been through."

The insurance is handling repairs for the house.

However, the amount of work needed to clear their expansive yard has been too much for mckee and camp to handle by themselves.

Camp: "pretty devastating to see all the trees she had line the property.

They were almost all on the ground.

And i didn't know what in the world mom and i were going to do to get that all up.

... thankfully, we had a volunteer come by a few days ago and asked if it was okay if they came in and cleaned up the yard for us, and i said, not only is it okay, but please do."

According to the volunteer reception center, forty houses still need help bringing debris to the side of the road for the city or county to pick up.

However, fema's deadline for debris recovery is monday.

After that, all homeowners will have to hire a contractor to take the debris.

Jojo macatiag/directo r, volunteer reception center: "today is thursday, and that's monday.

We're talking four days.

And the rain has dampened, literally dampened the efforts to try to get this debris to the road.

And with that kind of time frame, with that many houses, there's no way we're going to be able to do it all."

Trees still need to come down.

Debris from backyards still need to be pulled to the street.

Even simply raking the yard to allow landscapers back in is greatly needed.

Camp: "if you're one of the lucky ones that didn't have damage, you can't imagine how grateful and thankful people might be if you could come and just give one day's work would be wonderful."

Mckee: "anytime they want to come, i got plenty of work out there."

You can find all the information on how to sign up to volunteer on our website, wdef-dot-com.

Reporting in chattanooga, angela moryan, news 12 now.

With just four days left for debris pickup, hamilton