'Amazing that we were out when car port collapsed'
BBCA woman has described how her car port was reduced to "just rubble" and other parts of her home damaged during Storm Darragh.
Debbie Cooper, from Eastern Green, Coventry, told BBC CWR she felt thankful no-one was at home when bricks fell from an adjacent property during strong winds on Saturday evening.
"It was amazing really that we weren't in the property when it happened, we had popped to my daughter's for an hour," she said.
In Warwickshire, a woman thanked people for helping her and her 15-year-old daughter after part of a tree went through the car windscreen, narrowly missing the daughter, in Leek Wootton on Saturday evening.
Other"To say we were extremely lucky is an understatement," the woman wrote on social media.
Police said the storm led to "unprecedented demand" with the Warwickshire control room receiving 671 calls on Saturday.
In Coventry, Ms Cooper said she was shocked to find the damage after returning from visiting her daughter and grandchildren.
"We went out and we came back to see that the car port had just collapsed on the driveway and it's been horrendous."
She said the damaged building was assessed as safe by the council and fire service on Saturday but she believed its condition had since worsened.
She is now scared to use her kitchen in case the roof collapses.
"The bricks are on the roof to the extension of the kitchen and that is about to give way," she said.
Ms Cooper, who has contacted her insurers, said the car port's roof was repaired only a week ago.
Despite being upset, she was relieved no-one was hurt.
"We could have been so easily caught underneath it," Ms Cooper said.
She added some of the car port's weight was resting on scaffolding put up because their home was having a new roof built.
"If it hadn't have been there I think it would have crashed into the house and we wouldn't have been able to get in and out of the front door," she said.
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