Tuesday, February 9, 2010

i'm back.

and we find a woman in training. seriously.

aretha brown has to dodge a few more cars in her driveway than most. and also, hers are train cars.
jacksonville based CSX has been parking roughly 40 of its train cars on an area between brown's house and a neighboring street. the train line claims that it didn't know her house ran on its route, but nevertheless has left the train cars there for months.
brown can barely get to her mailbox without having to squeeze between two of the cars. furthermore, her house remains in a state of disrepair because repairmen cannot get to the house. but she won't sell the house, only laughing and saying, "who would want to buy this?"

brown and her sister, mae hailey, are working to have CSX either move the cars, or disconnect some of them so they can move between them. in the meantime, she must shimmy between cars to go to church or any other errands she might have to do.

so hooray for terrible train tyranny, and HOORAY FLORIDA!

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