Hurricane Sandy
Sandy Homeowner Gets $37.74 in Insurance for Destroyed Home
Woodbridge homeowner Jason Crea's house was totaled in Hurricane Sandy. He took out his anger on a $37.74 check from his insurance company in a sign letting the world know his plight.
Drive down Watson Avenue in Woodbridge, and you'll notice an odor. It's a musty, moldy smell that permeates a street that some say was the hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy's storm surge back in October. On a sunny day in January, you hear the sound of workers reroofing a house denuded by the hurricane, or chucking out yet more storm-damaged possessions that are beyond hope. Every other house, it seems, has a neon-orange tag noting the building is unsafe to enter. Even among all this leftover misery, Jason Crea's Watson Avenue home stands out. Not just because it's the hardest hit home on the hardest hit street in Woodbridge. Or because the basement walls on both sides of the steps were blown out by the storm surge. It's the big sign that …
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LydiaG
1:53 am on Saturday, February 2, 2013
Why is everyone talking about this man's basement and music equipment??? He has homeowners AND flood insurance and he hasn't received ANY money to rebuild his HOUSE! The insurance company is with holding the engineers report! Is that "his fault"? Is that something he should have "read" in his policy? more ›