1 year since historic microburst hit Tempe

A destruction in Tempe one year ago today, a severe microburst slammed parts of the city, leaving hundreds of people without a home. Yeah, it was pretty bad. On the anniversary of the storm, residents are reflecting on what happened and the progress they've made since then. Fox 10's Taylor Wertz is live tonight with more. Taylor. Mark and Christina, when we were here at the Century Apartment Complex last year, we saw dozens of downed trees and even units in this building behind me here seemingly chopped in half. Now, thanks to repairs over the last year, the complex looks almost unrecognizable, but residents say they'll never forget what it looked like. It was the worst storm in Tempe's history. Nothing I've ever seen out here before. One year ago, a devastating microburst knocked out power to over 30,000 people and damaged more than 550 homes and 70 businesses. Aftermath, it just looked crazy. Everything was flooded. It was just horrible. Five buildings at the Century Apartments near Mill Avenue in Southern were condemned. A lot of devastating damage that was done to this complex. There was a tree knocked into my neighbor's apartment right there. The roof caved in right here. It was like I left my apartment complex for grocery shopping, and I came back, and it was like a completely different complex. Isaac Guzman says his unit was the only one still livable in his building. They pretty much redid the whole place. It took about a year. We were the only ones living in there for a while. Everybody else moved out. It was a similar scene at other complexes on nearby Baseline Road. Little by little, they've been fixing it, but no progress. And we saw the tree just land on top of that bar right there. Huge tree right in the middle. The 90-mile-an-hour winds ripped the roof off this industrial complex also on Baseline. The owner says rebuilding has been a slow process. We're only 90 days into our approvals from the insurance company. Most of the holdup, again, was just all the redesign and the city, and therefore waiting on the insurance company to approve us. And as the city reflects on one year since the landmark storm, neighbors say one thing they'll never forget is how people showed up for one another in the aftermath honestly just everyone around had to come together and just be like we gotta help each other because we don't have any other options at a press conference earlier today the Tempe Fire department said they got more than 200 calls for service the day of the microburst which is more than three times the average the city says they've updated their emergency operations plan to be better prepared in case anything like this happens again. Live in Tempe, Taylor Wertz, Fox 10 News.