Joann Robinson
"It was so horrific. When that building caught on fire, when the flame shot up in the air, my heart was in my throat. I was scared to death," Robinson says.
Joann was there on the day of the fire, and she's back here today,
living in the same North side tower she saw burn after it's been rehabbed and
reopened. She says it's a miracle that all 200 residents made it out
alive, not a singe on them.
After being closed for around 10 years, Joann didn't know if the building would ever open again.
"I thought 'They're not going to do it,' but they did," she says.
And coming back has been a real joy for her. It's the first time she's
lived anywhere totally brand new, something which she has found
delightful.
"No one has ever used my refrigerator. No one has ever used my stove.
You go into the bathroom and no one has ever sat on my john," she says,
laughing.
She says the reopening has brought back a lot of memories, some good,
some bad. But none of them has changed how she feels about Flannery.
"The day of that fire came back to me in a flood today," she says. "But I'm always going to come back here. This is home."
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