A Moru­ga cou­ple is thank­ful to be alive af­ter the roof of their home col­lapsed dur­ing tor­ren­tial show­ers on Sun­day.

In­dera Tor­res Es­tevez and her hus­band Car­los, 54, were in the bed­room at their La Rufin Road home when they heard a crash­ing noise around 8.30 pm.

Re­call­ing the scary or­deal yes­ter­day, Tor­res Es­tevez said, “We were go­ing to sleep. The rain was falling. It had a lil breeze and the roof just col­lapsed. The gal­va­nize on the roof (over a bed­room) just col­lapsed.” 

The 52-year-old woman said when she and her hus­band ran out of the house, they saw the elec­tri­cal wires spark­ing.

“The gal­va­nize push down the me­ter box and burst up the wires and that start­ed spark­ing. My hus­band start­ed to tape it up with plas­tic bags.”

Tor­res Es­tevez said she was scared that she would lose her en­tire house, as she thought the sparks would have ig­nit­ed a fire.

“I was more afraid with all that spark and blue flame than the roof,” she lament­ed.

She said she was wor­ried that an­oth­er heavy bout of rain might dam­age the re­main­der of her home. She said her hus­band was at­tempt­ing to use the old gal­va­nize and pieces of ply­wood from the dam­aged por­tion of the house to build a makeshift struc­ture for them to sleep in un­til bet­ter could be done.

Tor­res Es­tevez said since last year, they had been try­ing to get as­sis­tance to fix the roof, but ad­mit­ted it had been an up­hill bat­tle.

The cou­ple grows cas­sa­va and re­cent­ly start­ed rear­ing live­stock to earn a liv­ing.

Tor­res Es­tevez said the Princes Town Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion as­sist­ed them with a mat­tress and tar­pau­lin. While grate­ful that they were not in­jured in the in­ci­dent, she is plead­ing for any as­sis­tance to help them re­build their home.

Any­one will­ing to as­sist them can con­tact 380-1058.