already been by, they put that red placard on there declaring the house unsafe, stating the obvious here. take a look at this that s an ford f-150 pick-up truck that was hurled on top of this house, then a tree fell on top of it. amazingly, no one in the city of garland was killed in their house. all of the fatalities happened along the roadway. let me show you exactly where. this is the interchange of president george bush turnpike and interstate 30. right down there is the interchange where the tornado passed right through there, knocking those cars right off the freeway. eight people died right there. that s where the fatalities happened in garland. then of course you had three more fatalities, two people were killed in a gas station/feed store about eight miles from here, and an infant believed to be 2 to 3 days home was killed in its mobile home which was
this man, agent paul stickney, who introduced them to local contractor richard birgh. he said they had superb finish work, they had a unique pricing system, they were just absolutely fabulous. he brought the contractor in to evaluate the house before we purchased the house. we would not have purchased the house had we not thought that the work could be done for the price we d wanted to pay. this was the original bid they gave us. they say the contractor assured them that the total cost of his renovations would be no more than $90,000. it was represented to us that the prices would not go over this amount and it would not go under this amount. so we were fooled for quite a long time into thinking they could do what they said they could do for the price they said they could do it. the decourseys say within six months the contractor fell behind schedule, over budget, and the renovation rendered the house unsafe. we really panicked because we could see they didn t know what the
could do for the price they said they could do it. the decourseys say within six months the contractor fell behind schedule, over budget, and the renovation rendered the house unsafe. we really panicked because we could see they didn t know what they were doing. they didn t have a grip on anything. their fears were confirmed by a local inspector who came to assess the house. first thing he came in the door, he said uh-oh, i smell gas. i said really? oh, yes, he says, and he came over to the stove and he says here s where it s coming out of, here s the strongest smell. and the repairman discovered that there was a flexible pipe joining up the gas pipe to the stove had been crushed in the process of installing the stove and it was leaking gas into the house. it turns out that leaky gas was only one of their problems. for a while we were lying in bed and we could hear it creaking or cracking every 20 seconds, you d hear just as though the timbers are sliding past each other