ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Help is on the way for north St. Louis residents still living with the devastation from this summer’s tornado.

FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be on the ground in November to begin clearing debris from private properties.

For 73-year-old Harvey Lacy, who has refused to leave his North City home despite a red tag on his front door, that news can’t come soon enough.

“I can cook, I can look at TV, I can turn my air conditioning on, my generator is running… I might not have what you want, but I’m still surviving,” Lacy said.

He is the only person still living on his block.

“I’m the only one left that’s living in their house,” he said.

There are four tarps on his roof, piles of bricks in the yard, and pieces of a tree that fell on his car th

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