ST. LOUIS – There used to be a roof here over this kitchen here in this house in the greater Ville neighborhood. 

Today they’re trying to put up a tarp and save their belongings before more rain hits St. Louis.

“She said, ‘Mom, your roof is gone,” said Joy Ming Sulaimon.  “I said, ‘Yeah, a couple of bricks.’ And look, my roof is literally gone.”

In the greater Ville neighborhood, a patchwork of blue tarps dots the tops of buildings and houses where roofs once stood.

“I’d just gotten a tarp from my uncle because both of my cars are totaled now,” says Paul Huddelston.  “I’ve got to get up there and lay it out before I can get an actual roofer to patch it up for me.”

Paul Huddleston has been trying to help his neighbors, using his chainsaw to cut up downed trees.

His house was unscathed. His cars, however, were not so lucky.

But just next door, what was once a newly restored brick home that Joy Sulaimon had moved into in December now had holes through the roof.

And parts of the roof…gone.

She’ll stay with her daughter across the street once they can get the downed sycamore tree off this house.

“God is good but our livelihoods over here have changed,” said Sulaimon. “Some of us lost everything, some of us lost little. I was not in my home, for which I thank God. If he had to take this house instead of a house of kids or elderly people. They can have another house of mine. And that’s what I want to say to the people of St. Louis, to try and stick together and help each other.”