Flood Diaries: Patterson Park Residents Face an Uncertain Future

The smoke is the first thing I see. As I come down Main Street in Duxbury, I see the fire. The half-century old Patterson’s Mobile Home Park is burning. Inside the park, I find about a dozen people working feverishly under a light rain on this early October day. An excavator with a claw prowls the grounds like a predatory animal, tearing off large pieces of a mobile home. It is as if the machine is feeding on the forsaken structures. Entire walls give way with a loud crack, the final submission in a month-long, losing battle to survive. Joe Preus, 40, is tending a brilliant orange bonfire that roars in the middle of what looks like a battlefield. Friends and relatives move purposefully around him, sorting the debris. Preus, wearing a rain-soaked New England Patriots hoody, feeds the fire by adding broken pieces of lumber. His face is streaked with rain and soot … Full Article PDF Link to Article

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