Families suffer devastating damage to their homes from Storm Eowyn
Families suffer devastating damage to their homes from Storm Eowyn
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Families in Ireland have described the devastating damage to their homes after Storm Eowyn wreaked havoc throughout the country. Shane Egan, 33, from Ballinasloe, Co Galway said his family was lucky their house did not collapse on top of them as record-breaking winds caused destruction and power shortages across Ireland and parts of the UK.
Mr Egan, a train driver, was in Manchester at a football match with his oldest son on Thursday night when he received a message from his wife Emma who described hearing an almighty crash. “My wife was in the house with my other two sons and at about three o’clock in the morning, she heard a big crash and the house shook,” Mr Egan told the PA news agency.
“She texted me again at five in the morning saying, ‘Shane, I’m so scared’. “The doors in the house were opening and slamming. The wardrobes were moving, everything was shaking.”. Ms Egan, 35, who was unable to go outside to assess the damage that night due to safety concerns, received a knock on her door on Friday morning from a neighbour telling her her house was “falling down”.
She went outside to discover a pile of bricks and slates on the ground after the gable end of their home had given way. Mr Egan, who didn’t get home until 11pm on Friday night, said they were lucky it collapsed in the way it did, otherwise, his family would have ended up beneath the rubble.
