My Story
This goes back to I think 1997 when the Town of Cary, NC or
the North Carolina DOT, I think they have not decided or
won't say who was in charge then. They put down an inch of
asphalt on the street and did not raise the driveway connection we had
a big rainfall the water would travel down the hill toward my house and
then before it got to my driveway, the street is lower on my side of
the street and would go over the driveway connection and down my drive
way into my laundry room and my utility room. When
the house was built both the laundry room and the utility room
were built on the carport floor. The laundry room floor has a
built up lip behind the washer and dryer but the utility room
floor does not.
I would call the Town of Cary and tell them that the water was
coming into my laundry room and utility room and they would
say "We will take care of it." In my opinion their
way of taking care of it, was to just hang up the phone because
I never had anyone from the town to come out about the problem
every time we had a big storm or just a heavy rain.
This went on for a few years calling the town when we had a big rain
and putting down my rags that I had acquired to soak up the water and
put a big fan blowing in the door to help dry the
floor. When the water was soaked up I would take my rags up,
wash and dry them and put them back in my rag bag for the next
time. I got tired of call and sending letters and getting
nothing done so I stopped calling.
In I think it was 2006, the Town Engineer came by to get me to sign the
papers for the Town to widen the street and I told them that
there would be a water problem and the reply was "we will take care of
any water problem." Before the project was started that
Engineer left the Town of Cary and his replacement came by to get me to
sign another set of papers, I told him that I had already done
that with the other Engineer, he told me that he was no longer there so
he need to get another set of papers signed. Neither one
of the Engineers told me that they were going to build the
road up about 6 feet above what it was. I told my
neighbor that Tom Ellis the Engineer, had been by to
get me to sign another set of papers because the other Engineer was
gone. She told me that she didn't have to sign any more
papers. From that I take it that they had changed what they
were going to do and have to have another set of paper but he did not
leave me a set of those papers.
I am still getting water and in my Utility room land Laundry room and
sometimes mud and there is about two feet of water under my house that
had
washed about two inches of the siding where the water is coming under
my carport and going under my house and there is about two feet of
water in crawl space.
