It’s a tree that had stood for decades but on Tuesday morning in Luisville Village as Hurricane Dean gripped the north, the tree went down. Sure, fallen trees are all over the Corozal District but we’ve been all over – and this is the biggest one we’ve seen. Faustita Hernandez told us what it was like when the mammoth fell on her house which luckily had a cement roof.
Faustita Hernandez,
“We heard the wind howling howling and every time it was stronger. We couldn’t open even the windows but when we opened this window on that
side, the rain was coming inside and we began to experience some water coming inside so we had to move the beds in the living there. Nobody could sleep, only the small children. We were falling asleep at about 5:30 and all of a sudden we heard the big bang and the house trembled a lot. I thought the roof was gone but thank God, no.”
Jules Vasquez,
Were you afraid?
Faustita Hernandez,
“A little afraid but we were also praying to God that nothing would happen. We were thinking about those small houses there. We were thinking afterwards the floods that maybe would come but up to now there was no flood coming.”
Jules Vasquez,
Will you miss the tree?
Faustita Hernandez,
“Yes, a little. Just a little because if any other hurricane comes
here, we are going to make sure that we have some good plywood all around. I will miss the shade because we had shade. The tree was good but we were also afraid that the tree would fall on top of the house and break the house but luckily that did not happen.”
