The owners of a tornado-damaged duplex in Rowlett, Texas, arrived
home on Tuesday to find something unexpected: Their home had been
leveled by a construction crew.
“I pull up, and — sure enough — it’s gone,” says Lindsay Diaz, one of
the home’s owners. “There’s nothing left. … How do you make a mistake
like this? I mean, this is just the worst.”
Some media reports are partially blaming Google Maps. The site
confused the two addresses and pointed the company to the wrong duplex,
according to reports. The company had a demolition permit to tear down
another duplex that was one block away.
Billy L. Nabors Demolition CEO, George Gomez, told the media that his crew made a mistake but then added it’s “not a big deal.”
City officials quickly fired back. “I think this is a huge deal,”
city manager Brian Funderburk says. “The home owners were in the process
of trying to figure out what it was going to take to repair their home
and now they’re looking at rebuilding instead. I think this is a very
big deal.”
The home’s owners, Lindsay Diaz and Alan Cutter, have filed a police report.
The couple owns both sides of the duplex. After a Dec. 26 tornado
tore through the area, the couple said they had been waiting on
insurance and a possible Federal Emergency Management Agency to decide
on repairs of their home.
Source: “Company Says Demo Mistake ‘Not a Big Deal,’” ABC-WFAA.com (March 24, 2016)
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