This story appears in our Spring 2020 issue, arriving in mailboxes soon! Subscribe now to receive yours in the coming weeks. THE RAISING COMPANY was out of Morehead City. Smithson & Sons. They’d long been the most reputable house raising company in the region. We all went with them. The whole neighborhood. My husband and I kept watching a YouTube video of a house down on the Gulf side of Florida that slipped off while being raised, and broke to pieces. But we were going ahead with it.
