RINGGOLD, Ga. – A family of eight says they are victims of retaliation after they spoke out about their landlord on television when their road washed away in the Labor Day flooding.
Now they say they are being forced to leave their home.
Keith Houston said his sister was in labor and he was trying to take her to the hospital on Sept. 6 when his van tumbled over into a gaping hole caused by the road washing away in the storm that dumped more than 10 inches of rain on the area.
No one was hurt. A local news station later aired an interview with Houston about the accident on Tera Beth Lane. After the interview aired, Houston said his landlord, Tom Matthews, told him to leave that night, then blocked the privately owned road using paint cans and tree limbs to keep the family out.
“He wanted us out and didn’t care where we went,” Houston said.