we are told a lot of homes in this area are leveled. we can't get into one of the hardest hit areas, it's deep, deep down into the pine woods here. but you can see, people are returning home, people are dealing with the fact they, i don't have a home, have -- i have a home no oning water, no power, and some return home and this is what they find. >> this is our life. our memory, i had only dhs tapes of my children when they were little, we have nothing. i have two fair of slacks -- pair of slacks and a pair of shoes. >> reporter: now from one end of the spectrum to the oerbgs we were with brian smalley as he walked into his house for the first time and despite the faint smell of smoke inside you'd never know a fire came close to consuming his house. everything, i mean everything, is the way he left it, including bows in the bedroom where his wife was playing with their daughter before they had to