A month after Dallas crane collapse, residents 'stuck in limbo' without property, clarity
After his life was upended by a falling crane last month, all Jim Peabody wants is a letter.
He wants a document from the apartment company that owns Elan City Lights declaring everything inside his unit a "total loss," he said. That piece of paper would allow Peabody to file an insurance claim for everything he left behind and look to the future.
They will never hear from me again, he said. I'll go away, get my stuff replaced, and we'll continue to move on.
Peabody, along with more than 500 other residents of the apartment complex just east of downtown Dallas, was sent scrambling from his home June 9 when a crane from a construction site across the street toppled over during a summer storm.
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