Light­ning, heavy rain­fall and gusty winds on Wednes­day night left a fam­i­ly in East Trinidad count­ing loss­es af­ter their roof was torn off and sev­er­al ve­hi­cles were dam­aged. The dam­age to the house is es­ti­mat­ed at over $60,000, and in­cludes house­hold ap­pli­ances—fur­ni­ture, stove, re­frig­er­a­tor, tele­vi­sion, and beds. The cost of dam­age to the ve­hi­cles is yet to be de­ter­mined.

Sal­ly Dabreau, a house­wife of Mela­jo, Ve­ga de Oropouche, To­co Main Road, said, “Around 9.30 pm, I now bathe and went and lie down and I hear a rum­bling noise and like the gal­vanise hit­ting each oth­er. I get re­al fright­en be­cause to be hon­est, I thought was the sea was com­ing. The sound was dif­fer­ent and when I watch out­side, all the trees and every­thing was like bend­ing.”

Sal­ly and her hus­band De­vanand es­caped with­out in­juries.