Yes! Not everybody got blown apart by the bombs, and this neighborhood had a plan for those who couldn’t get into the vaults. It worked for the most part…but we’re losing to the elements day by day.

Trust me, handymen with careers as long as I have get to be members of the family in many homes. Most of them were destroyed, but with the amount of people still breathing in them, I couldn’t be happier.

We’ve got a broken bunch of structures, sure. That’s just a puzzle half finished. It won’t be perfect, but hey — it’ll be better than half the matchstick houses you’ll see out there. Give it time, Ray: ‘We keep up like this, take in a few more builders… this place might look like it never got touched at all.