HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Hundreds remain without power in Hot Springs as clean-up efforts continue.

About 800 customers were in the dark Thursday morning according to Energy. By evening, crews got down to about 600 outages.

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Select areas such as Long Island Drive and Peninsula Drive have been closed to all but residents since Wednesday morning. Meanwhile, hundreds of people are waiting to start recovery work of their own.

A collapsed porch, a destroyed carport, and a tree crushing the roof. Everywhere around David Voyles is a reminder of what the EF-2 tornado took away.

“You really don’t know what to do,” Voyles admitted.

He’s waiting on insurance adjusters before removing anything, but he’s not complaining because he is happy he is moving at all. A tree limb pierced his bedroom wall inches from where he was sleeping. An alarm gave him just enough time to enter a safe space before shattered glass went everywhere.

“The glass came in on our bed and it was all broken up and a piece of the tree came through the wall right close to our head, so we were lucky,” Voyles said.

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As he breathed a sigh of relief, the twister was heading to Samantha Scott’s home on Peninsula Drive.

“I really didn’t have trees in my yard, but when I woke up and looked outside, I definitely had trees in my yard,” Scott said.

Her entire community on Peninsula Drive is without power. Entergy crews have been working simply to clear a way to access their tangled lines.

“They were here at dawn first thing with chainsaws,” Scott said. “They are little heroes for us.”

While the work is ongoing, her neighborhood is inaccessible because of possible looters and spectators slowing the recovery.

“They have stopped my customers from being able to come to my salon…just stay out of the neighborhoods if you don’t live here,” she asked.

Linemen stated on Thursday it would take a couple of days before everyone on Peninsular Drive gets power restored, but powerless has more than one meeting while recovery spins up in Hot Springs.

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Voyles said it took five months to move back in the last time his home had a tree on top of it.

“It’s just going to take a lot of time. We’re just going to have to deal with it,” Voyles said.

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