But only a select few residents of Pensacola, Florida, also have the misfortune of dealing withthat washed ashore and settled in their yards. Homeowners said Sunday that at least four barges remain lodged in the yards of homes located off the shore of Pensacola Bay.
"The basement was flooded and our cars were flooded and everything, and then I look through the window and see this light coming towards me," Nisewonger said, referring to a light attached to the top of the barge now entrenched in her backyard."I'm like, 'A is barge is coming, a barge is coming. Oh my gosh, what do we do?'"
The barge completely flattened Nisewonger's metal fence. She also thinks it may have blasted her deck steps 30 to 40 yards back behind her house, unless the storm surge alone was responsible. "In a typical storm like this, you would lose the dock but you'd still have the pilings, and it's a lot cheaper to rebuild when the pilings are in place," Simkins said Sunday."And you'd still have your yard and everything. But the barge wiped it all out."
In a statement released Thursday, Skanska USA, the construction company that owns the still unspecified number of runaway barges, saidbut noted it made "all appropriate preparations" based on the best information available before the storm. Nisewonger said that she and her husband haven't considered pursuing a lawsuit yet, but they are concerned about drowning in the looming expenses brought on by Sally and the giant vessel.
This article comes off as biased: Against Skanska, For entitled homeowners. And don't tell me they're not entitled. Who else has the 💰to first build a reinforcing wall, then a house?! Skanska has to get equipment to get the barges. Probably not easy to do right now.
My property my barge I guess.
Hopefully they don’t have to wait 3 years for their disaster relief like Puerto Rico.
Finders keepers! That's the law of the sea.
Get invested today and don't miss out on the profits you could make this month from bitcoin trading. Send DM now for more.