Demolition Company Wrecked Wrong Home in Texas

Demolition Company Wrecked Wrong Home in Texas
Lindsay Diaz's and Alan Cutter's house before, apparently before the tornado damage and demolition, in Rowlett, Texas. Screenshot of Google Street View
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When a tornado ripped through Rowlett, Texas, on December 26 last year, destroying or damaging over 400 buildings, Lindsay Diaz survived with her son in a bathtub.

Now, when she was about to decide on repairs of her damaged house, another calamity struck. This time a man-made one.

Billy L. Nabors Demolition of Seagoville came to tear down a house one block away from Diaz’s on Wednesday.

But the map that showed which building to demolish had instead the Diaz’s house marked on it, according to a WFAA report.

How do you make a mistake like this?
Lindsay Diaz, former home owner

Sure enough, the company followed through and leveled the duplex house Diaz owned together with Alan Cutter.

On Tuesday afternoon Diaz said she received a frantic call from Cutter’s wife saying the house was gone.

“How do you make a mistake like this?” Diaz told WFAA. “I mean, this is just the worst.”

She said she filled out a report with Rowlett police.