A pensioner has been left terrified that debris from her flat roof will kill someone after it was ripped apart by Storm Eowyn.
Rachel Allan’s home in Cambuslang was wrecked by the dramatic weather on Friday and the roof is hanging from the property.
The 72-year-old retired social care worker says that she is living in fear that a passerby will be struck by the roof if it falls off completely – and she fears someone will die.
She said: “I was in the house on Friday morning when I heard this almighty crash. I didn’t know what it was, but I was never thinking it was the roof that had come off.
“When I looked outside the front door I could see the roof had moved.
“Then I heard creaking as it was moving further and further forward. It hasn’t come off completely. It’s now leaning on next door’s canopy, but that’s all that is stopping it.
“The roof is just hanging there. It could go at any time and kill somebody.”
Rain water is also now leaking into Rachel’s bedroom and she has been forced to sleep in her living room on a fold down bed.
She bought her home from South Lanarkshire Council, but says the local authority is liable to carry out repairs as it still has responsibility for the roof.
She continued: “I found the paperwork for the roof the other day and it was put in by the council at the end of January 2005 with a guarantee for 20 years.
“That guarantee doesn’t expire until January 31.”
Rachel said council workers attended her home on Monday morning and sent a drone up to assess the roof damage, while traffic cones were placed on the street to block the footpath.
A spokesperson for the council said: “South Lanarkshire Council can confirm that due to damage caused by Storm Eowyn on Friday 24th of January, repairs are now required at this property.
“This covers a large proportion of the roof that has been dislodged.
“Arrangements are being made for emergency repairs to reinstate as much as possible of the original roof back into position and temporarily fixed to the building along with temporary covers to endeavour to make the building wind and watertight in the short term.”
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