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Surinam slippage horrors

Surinam slippage horrors Grantley Hall showing parliamentary representative for St Joseph, Dale Marshall a column that has lost most of its support. (Maria Bradshaw)

By Lisa King | Thu, February 09, 2012 - 12:08 AM

GRANTLEY HALL is living on the edge. On Tuesday he returned home from work to find that several columns at the back of his Surinam Road, St Joseph home had slipped into the gully behind it making his home uninhabitable.

“I went to work yesterday [Tuesday] and felt worried. Something was bothering me and I just tell myself, ‘I going home’,” said Hall.

When he opened his door, a rush of water came out and he later realized that the house had slipped and a pipe had broken.

“I am accustomed coming home late, so if I had come home at my normal time maybe I would not be able to get into the house at all,” Hall stated.

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Posted by Harold Harris 3 months, 2 weeks ago

I am concerned as to how columns that are properly constructed would become displaced by mere land slippage; such dislocation seems to be the result of poor construction, since, unless there was rock displacement, there is no way these columns should have shifted otherwise!

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