“This whole neighborhood will be underwater”
12:19 p.m.: Homeowners in one coastal town in Massachusetts are hoping last-ditch repairs to a seawall will prevent the worst, CBS News correspondent DeMarco Morgan reports. More than 300 homes in Duxbury are at risk of being destroyed.
“This whole neighborhood will be underwater – 100 percent,” Duxbury Fire Department Capt. Rob Reardon told Morgan while driving through town.
The seawall was compromised as a result of last week’s nor’easter, causing water from the Atlantic to spill into neighborhoods before Wednesday’s storm even arrived.
For Robyn Chiminiello, the thought of losing her dream house was almost too much to bear.
“I’ve worked my whole life for this,” she told Morgan. “I’ve worked really hard for it, and, you know, it’s gone in one day. It’s devastating, you know, and there’s nothing you can do except, you know, hope for the best.”
