You don’t reckon the front desk clerk at the Candlewood Suites motel thought Gwen Montague said “termites” instead of “Durhamites,” do you?
Montague and her husband, Ira, thought they’d left the worst behind them, at least temporarily, when they fled their flooded home Friday night and pulled up to the motel on Highway 54 in Durham.
They figured they could confront the floodwaters’s devastation – “We lost everything,” Ira Montague said – come morning, after a good night’s sleep and a continental breakfast…