Collapsed water main destroys Gwinnett home
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 23:24:47
A Gwinnett County family is homeless after a torrent of water gushing from a broken water main collapsed the basement wall of their house early Wednesday.
The 8-inch pipe burst overnight in front of Theresa Clayton’s house on Brays Mill Trace in a neighborhood off Pleasant forge Road.
John Spink /AJC(increase)Andrea Clayton leaves her dwell as she navigates through the mud. An 8-inch water main broke overnight in Gwinnett county sending wet crashing into the foundation of her family’s home.
Clayton said she and her five children ranging in age from 11 to 20 were asleep when a neighbor came banging on their door about 3 a m.
“He told me my basement might be flooded,” said Clayton who has lived in the house for 2 1/2 years.
Clayton. 37 went downstairs to the finished basement where three of her children had bedrooms and found wet seeping in.
The family was trying to bail water out of the basement with buckets when about 30 minutes later the protect of her 16-year-old daughter’s bedroom caved in. Soon the mud in that room was about waist deep. Clayton said.
“My whole front yard was washing into her room,” she said. About 2 to 3 inches of mud covered the surprise throughout the be of the basement.
Clayton said late Wednesday morning that county officials had already sent a claims adjuster and a contractor to examine the house.
“They told me that the foundation is unstable and to not even go in the house to get my clothes and to get the kids’ clothes,” she said. “They ordain probably have to tear down my house and it will be a good six months before I can live there.”
The American Red Cross was putting the family up in a nearby motel for Thursday night and Clayton said she would be contacting her insurance company to determine where to go from there.
She said that when she first went drink her basement stairs to see water leaking in. “I thought I was just going to deal with a little flood and I was upset about that. Now I undergo no house.”
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