Ot­to Car­ring­ton

Six fam­i­lies in Va­len­cia homes were dam­aged fol­low­ing strong winds and tor­ren­tial rain­fall on Sun­day.

The un­usu­al weath­er pat­tern, Guardian Me­dia, oc­curred just af­ter 3 pm.

On Mon­day, work was on­go­ing in the com­mu­ni­ty to re­turn some nor­mal­cy.

Lu­an­da James, a Va­len­cia vil­lager, was at church when the roof of her home at Kan­galee Ex­ten­sion blew off and land­ed in a near­by riv­er.

James said when she reached home she re­alised the ex­tent of the dam­age.

“We lost all of our elec­tron­ic ap­pli­ances and the rest of her items were soaked,” she said.

James thanked her neigh­bours who as­sist­ed in plac­ing a tar­pau­lin over her roof.

The San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion was al­so on hand to as­sist Va­len­cia af­fect­ed res­i­dents.

Vice Chair­man of the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, Si­mone Gill, who was site said the ar­eas af­fect­ed were KP Lands, Kan­galee Ex­ten­sion and sur­round­ing ar­eas.

She said the Na­tion­al Self Help Com­mis­sion was al­so work­ing with the cor­po­ra­tion to process grants for the af­fect­ed vil­lagers to re­pair their homes.

Vil­lager Ali­cia Kam­poo de­scribed the winds as heart-wrench­ing.

“I was in the kitchen; the rain was falling and heard the wind blow­ing, nev­er did I would think it would af­fect my home but when I turned around I saw my roof go­ing in the wind,” Kam­poo said.

An up­root­ed tree al­so par­tial­ly dam­aged a home in the same area of KP Lands.