Apr 5, 2021
SANTO DOMINGO PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) First came the hail sheets of it, pounding the centuries-old adobe homes at Santo Domingo Pueblo.
Roofs were perforated “like a machine gun,” with some vigas broken and windows shattered.
The floods came three years later a week’s worth of rain, capped with a 24-hour downpour. In the ensuing years, mold issues arrived.
Diane Garcia and her daughter, Patricia, have lived amid the damage to their home since the 2010 hailstorm and 2013 deluge. They aren’t alone: Many other residents in the small pueblo southwest of Santa Fe continue to live in storm-damaged adobe homes.
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Pandemic aid helps New Mexico tribe fix damaged adobe homes
TEYA VITU, Santa Fe New Mexican
April 3, 2021
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1of8This March 30, 2021 image shows Santo Domingo Pueblo Gov. Sidelio Tenorio speaking among tribal leaders in front of the newly-rebuilt adobe home of Diane Garcia at Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico. It s the first home completed in a new housing initiative to rebuild or restore more than 150 traditional adobe buildings within the pueblo. (Matt Dahlseid/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP)Matt Dahlseid/APShow MoreShow Less
2of8This March 30, 2021 image shows Joyce Zamora, center, walking through her home at Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico, seeing it for the first time since work began on rebuilding the traditional adobe structure that had been damaged by storms. Work has just begun on rebuilding and restoring more than 150 traditional adobe homes in the pueblo. (Matt Dahlseid/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP)Matt Dahlseid/APShow MoreShow Less
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