Sugar Hill home damaged when retaining wall breaks

SUGAR HILL - A house in a Sugar Hill subdivision sustained damage Wednesday morning when flood water collapsed a retaining wall.<br> <br> &#34;I heard a loud crack that sounded something like thunder or lightning,&#34; said Sarah Rutledge.<br> <br> She told Channel Two a firefighter confirmed to her a short time later the wall had broken.<br> <br> Mud and concrete had crashed into her neighbor&#39;s house, Jeff Crecelius. It damaged a load-bearing wall and the back deck.<br> <br> &#34;I didn&#39;t know how bad it was going to be. It could have been a lot worse I suppose. Luckily, my daughter wasn&#39;t home,&#34; said Crecelius.<br> <br> It happened about ten o&#39;clock.<br> <br> Rutledge temporarily evacuated her house because of the threat of a gas explosion. <br> <br> Crecelius will have a structural engineer check the house before his family returns to live in it.<br> <br> The house is on Fishback Way in the Princeton Oaks subdivision of Sugar Hill.

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