(WSBT) Many people in Nappanee are busy rebuilding their homes. They're also fixing their damaged cars.

Working in the body shop business for the past 25 years, Chris Stewart has seen it all, until now.

“Actually this is probably worse, or the worst I've seen so far,” he said.

Blown out windows, dented and twisted metal and cars stuffed with debris.

"That must have been the brace for the cover,” said Shelley Jones of McCormick Motors. “It's hard to identify some things actually."

McCormick Motors Body Shop is keeping busy as damaged cars are slowly rolling in.

While it's good for business, employees say seeing the damage is hard to believe.

"It's just amazing,” Jones told WSBT News. “It was a really eerie feeling when these were coming in Monday, and looking at them. It's really scary."

Some of the cars could take several weeks to fix. They first have to go through a thorough cleaning process before the body work even begins.

"We’ve had a lot of insulation, wet insulation, stuck to everything,” Jones said. “That seems to be a really big issue."

While some cars are fixable, others are totaled. That’s not the news people want to hear.

Car owners are forking over anywhere from $1,600-$25,000. Employees say this is a small price to pay because cars can be replaced, but lives cannot.

"You look at it and you see a car wrecked like that, but the person that owns it is fine,” said mechanic Doug Helmuth. “So you just go on. It's just metal. It's just a car."

McCormick Motors Body Shop says a car is totaled when the damage comes to 75 percent of what the car is worth.