A four-sign billboard leans over the home of Amanda Saunders and her family.
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — A local family has been forced to temporarily move from their home in Princeton due to a leaning billboard sign.
Amanda Saunders and her son were sitting in the living room watching television when they heard a commotion outside.
“Me and my son looked at each other and we were like ‘what was that?’” Saunders said. “We got up to look and about that time my husband told us to come outside to look. When we walked out to the kitchen window I could see the sign was leaning.”
According to Saunders, the billboard weighs 40 tons.
Saunders mother saw the leaning sign as well.
“She lives across the road and told us we needed to get out of there and come over to her house,” Saunders said.
Saunders said that the ground behind their home needed to be elevated more before crews can fix the sign. A crane will be brought in to work on the sign.
The structure has four large billboards on it.
“They’re going to pick the sign up and reweld the weld ring around it that snapped loose,” Saunders said.
Saunders believes that high winds caused the damage…
