Dixon residents continue to clean up after a powerful storm that blew through Friday night.
It knocked down trees, bent a radio tower, and damaged the roof at the state prison.
The prison was forced to transfer 78 inmates from this building to the state prison in Pontiac, Illinois.
You can see workers on top of the roof assessing the damage and beginning their repairs.
The power's been restored but there's still trees spread throughout the grounds that need to be picked up.
And neighborhoods surrounding the prison could have storm debris in their yards for a month.
"I've been here for 30 years and it's the worst I've seen," says Dixon Street Superintendent Mike Stichter
His street crews continue picking up tree debris all over the City's north side. Where Friday's storm hit hardest. And he says it's slow going.
"I only have six guys on the street department so we're looking at everybody driving, or in a loader or a backhoe."
The crews will move from one street to the next. Clearing up the storm damage as they go.
Dixon resident Michael Tucker says he lost his, "Large old willow that the neighborhood kids used to come up and play, some little kids came up pretty sad last night that there tree went down."
Tucker says its unfortunate his tree was knocked down. Nut he's glad to have help cleaning up.
"You've got good help and you've got good people, there still are a lot of good people around."
One of those people is Tucker's church friend Ray Cossairt. He says he's happy to bring his chainsaw by.
"Because I know how to run it better than running somebody else's, and its also bigger than what Mike would have."
An effort that will help the clean up move more quickly.
We'll probably be doing that for the next three to four weeks and then after that when people have stuff out we'll just have them call City Hall and then we'll have to go back and pick it up."
Dixon will have a contractor grind up all the storm debris and will only pick up debris knocked down by the storm.
Anyone who uses a tree trimming service will be responsible for disposing of their tree waste.
