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Apr 14, 2007 7:31 pm US/Central
Apartment Residents Displaced After Roof Blows Off
by Stephanie Lucero
DALLAS (CBS 11 News) ―
Nearly two dozen Dallas families are displaced after Friday night's storm blew the roof off of an apartment complex.
Saturday part of one of the unit rooftops from the Casa Unicas Apartment Complex was strewn into a completely different neighborhood. The section of roof was pressed against a homeowner's fence - a block away.
The Casa Unicas Apartment complex is home to about 50 families. A group of children told CBS 11 News how they were in awe of the debris – Friday night they were in awe of the storm.
"It was bad because we thought it was going to be all around here and it was going to take the house up," said storm victim Janer Dominez.
The metal rooftops were thrown in all directions. Now Tania Dominez' girlish bedroom has a not-so-pretty leak in the ceiling. "My mom said, 'don't come upstairs because of the roof.' They said that the roof was falling off, so my mom took us downstairs so nobody could come here," Tania said.
Pots, pans and a baby bath are being used to collect water still leaking from above.
Ana Munoz, her husband and their three young daughters waited out the worst of the storm in a hallway with pillows. "My room has a sliding door so half of the weight is just glass," says Munoz. "So we didn't want to be in there in case the glass shattered or anything. I was scared for my kids."
Many of the apartment residents will have to temporarily live elsewhere - but they say that's okay because no one was injured.
The Red Cross has set up a shelter and about 20 people from the complex.
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