fundraising to put up. the damage is more than $15,000. good evening, i m lucy noland. i m iain page. now the vase on to fix it. fox 29 s chris o connell is live outside that building in holmesburg tonight. a lot of disappointed familiar tolls night, chris. reporter: there sure are, queen. what you re seeing behind me basically results in tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage here at the holmesburg boys club. this peace of roofing behind me it is so big it s literally have the size of a football field. ripped from the building this afternoon leaving kids without a club and volunteers scrambling to make repairs. on most nights you d find kids playing hockey at the holmesburg boys club. not tonight. kind of like home to us. i mean reporter: now see it like this. it stinks. reporter: instead of coaching parent volunteers spent this time cleaning and nasty afternoon storm brought heavy winds that ripped a huge layer of rubber roofing right from the building.
not tonight. kind of like home to us. i mean reporter: now see it like this. it stinks. reporter: instead of coaching parent volunteers spent this time cleaning and nasty afternoon storm brought heavy winds that ripped a huge layer of rubber roofing right from the building. the wind made such a noise i ve never heard before. like such a swoosh noise and we saw trash cans fly. reporter: from sky fox you could see how winds peeled away the roofing from the club on 7700 block of ditman street. rain came pouring in flooding the hockey floor and shutting down the club until further notice. your heart just stops. it s devastating all the time and people put in here volunteer work. nobody gets paid here. reporter: the roof was bear al-year-old. but took years to raise the money to buy it. what tomb am i going to do with all the kids have i in here. all my volunteers that help me out to do what i got to do here it s like starting all over again. reporter: the da
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