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Tornado brings calls for concrete homes

by John Hilton

posted 5/15/2012

While a tornado was destroying homes in Dexter on March 15, builder Ken Trever and a worker were just a few miles away, in the garage of an unfinished home in the Polo Fields subdivision. When the worker's wife called anxiously to check on him, he told her he'd be fine: the garage--in fact, the entire house--was built of concrete.

 
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