Devastated family homeless for Christmas after storm destroyed their house – with water pouring through loft
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A FAMILY has told how their kids have been left homeless for Christmas after a horror storm destroyed their house. Chantelle Bourne, 31, and Daniel Tilling, 36, have been left “angry” and “scared” after water poured in through their loft and ruining irreplaceable keepsakes.
![[Chantelle Bourne with her three daughters outside their battered home]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/3095daf5-646d-42d5-9daa-f26904f02305.jpg?strip=all&w=702)
All the houses on a council estate in Weymouth were set to be re-tiled and the couple's roof was removed. But when workers packed up on Friday, November 22, Chantelle claims they left her roof partly exposed to the elements. As Storm Bert hit on Saturday, rain flooded in, seeping as far as the couple’s daughters' bedrooms.
![[The bedroom ceiling is caving in from the water pressure]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5263__1_jpg-JS956588737.jpg?strip=all&w=720)
The couple say their three daughters who are 11, eight, and six, have been left sleeping on blow up mattresses in the living room. They also have no electricity and had to turn the boiler off on Saturday night. Daniel, a construction worker, described his initial reaction when Chantelle phoned him about the leak: “I was angry.”.
![[The roof job was left incomplete over the weekend which saw Storm Bert descend]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5194__1_jpg-JS956588668.jpg?strip=all&w=720)
Chantelle added: “I was scared for my children’s safety.”. Daniel said the girls are “angry, upset, and scared of going upstairs.”. One of their daughters has autism and has been left traumatised. Daniel said: “She needs routine and she needs her bedroom back.”.
![[The issue has ruined irreplaceable memorabilia]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5231__1_jpg-JS956878268.jpg?strip=all&w=720)
Their eldest daughter has managed to move back into her bedroom, but the younger two are still in the living room, despite being back at school. Like many of us do, the couple kept sentimental items in their loft such as locks of their daughters hair, school work and drawings, birthday cards and scrap books - all destroyed.
![[Water flooding in through the ceiling]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5163__1_jpg-JS956878265.jpg?strip=all&w=720)
