Storm Damage Update from round our way!
A week or so ago, after the last gales, I found two large plywood roofing panels in our garden. They were about 10 feet square, full of 1-inch screws and very heavy. I could not lift them alone.
They had been ripped from the roof of a structure about 100 yards away in field belonging to Wyffydd Road School.
I alerted the school, they came round, apologised and collected the panels, I thought no more about it.
I did suggest that longer screws were required, and they should not be replaced until AFTER the expected bad weather.
Mrs Fester said that someone could have been killed, but I dismissed the idea.
Fast forward then to the early hours of Boxing Day morning.
We had barely slept due to the howling gales, and Mrs Fester went downstairs at 7am.
I heard a loud crash, and a scream. I looked out of the window to see that those roof panels were back, and had smashed through our decking rails. A lot of force needed to do that.
But that was not the reason for the scream.... and it was not Mrs F screaming!
Instead, our next door neighbour's house was the source of the commotion.
Another of those wooden panels, with the 4-inch square posts still attached to them, had crashed through the patio doors and into the living room. It had taken a section of the wall in to the lounge with it.
I went round to take a look, and it was pure devastation.
Mrs Fester was correct, if anyone had been in that living room, (or if it had been ours), someone could have been killed.
On top of that, something similar had impacted the roof and smashed a section of roof tiles, and scythed through the TV aerial.
CCBC were alerted as it was the school property that had caused this damage. They are responsible for putting it all right. However, the CCBC man who quickly arrived on scene said that they have no builders available until 6th January!!
I have other problems and damage to report..... and they are due to the CCBC recycling policies and management.
I will post later about those, if anyone is interested.
