HOUSTON – After two months of waiting for heavy trash pickup — and after receiving a warning letter from her homeowners association — a Southwest Houston resident finally saw her overflowing curbside pile disappear Wednesday, just minutes after a visit from our newsroom.
The resident, Diamne Angert, says the trash was originally scheduled for pickup on October 2. When nothing happened, she filed a 3-1-1 complaint on October 20, only to see it incorrectly closed under the wrong category and address. She filed a second complaint, which was escalated, but the trash continued to sit outside her home weeks later.
In that time, Angert says strangers continued adding to the pile…