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A potent, deadly round of severe weather struck Texas the day after Christmas, damaging more than 1,000 homes and businesses when several tornadoes were spawned. Two of those homes belonged to Lindsay Diaz and Alan Cutter – that is, until their duplex was mistakenly demolished nearly three months later.

The Rowlett, Texas, duplex was damaged by the EF4 tornado that hit the town on Dec. 26, and Diaz said both she and Cutter were waiting to repair their homes until they heard back from FEMA about receiving funds, according to the Dallas Morning News. When she came home Tuesday afternoon, she found her home had been reduced to a pile of rubble, but this time, Mother Nature wasn't to blame for the damages. Billy L. Nabors Demolition went to the wrong house – their duplex – and tore it down.

“There’s nothing left,” she told USA Today. Diaz and her son rode out the tornado in a bathtub and had been staying in hotels and a rented home since then, USA Today also reported.

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Nabors was permitted to bring down the home at 7601 Cousteau Drive, but the crew instead went to 7601 and 7603 Calypso Drive, one street away, WFAA.com reported. According to Engadget, the demolition company blamed Google Maps for the mixup, and Nabors CEO George Gomez told WFAA.com the mistake was "not a big deal."

"I think this is a huge deal," Rowlett city manager Brian Funderburk told WFAA.com. "The homeowners were in the process of trying to figure out what it was going to take to repair their home and now they're looking at rebuilding it instead. I think this is a very big deal."

Diaz was also incredulous that such a mistake could be made by a professional demolition company.

“How do you make a mistake like this?" Diaz asked USA Today. " I mean, this is just the worst."

Diaz filed a police report after the duplex was leveled, and hopes to file an insurance claim soon, WFAA.com also reported. Still, she's understandably disheartened by the whole ordeal, and it's likely to be months before the two families will get back to a sense of normalcy at home.

"I feel farther away from moving into a home today than I did after the tornado hit," Diaz told WFAA.com.

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