A North East La Penitence man was yesterday pondering his next move after a large Ite palm tree broke and fell on his house, badly damaging his bedroom in the process.
According to Shieldston Roberts, he had moments earlier left his Lot 497, Kiskadee Drive, North East La Penitence home when someone in the area informed him of the incident.
Roberts recounted that around 2:15 pm yesterday, “I got up off my chair and decide to go and cut my hair but I wanted to change my mind and take a nap but then I decided against it and left for the corner”. The man lives alone.
The man noted that while sitting around the corner at the barber, he received word of the incident and on arrival at his home, “this is what greeted me”, as he pointed to his bedroom with the 40-foot-long tree laying across his bed.
He said that he was lucky to have escaped being injured “but at the same time it damaged my house severely”.
The tree damaged the man’s roof and two windows and in addition to his bed, several pieces of furniture including a wardrobe were hit during the tree fall.
Roberts told this newspaper that several officials of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council, including the City Engineer and Acting Deputy Mayor, Patricia Chase-Green visited his home and promised to assist in cleaning up the area where the tree fell by nightfall yesterday.
“I just want they come and move the tree off meh bed”, the man stated.
Yesterday’s incident was the third occasion in recent times in which aged palm trees have collapsed on homes in the area.
Last October, five-year-old Tomecia Hackett of Buffer Dam girl died after an Ite palm tree fell on her family’s home.
