Elderly woman escapes collapsing home in Tobago
Stunned.
That was how Marjorie Taylor felt when reporters visited her on Wednesday, hours after she barely escaped her collapsing home alive.
She has counted her blessings and the fact that she escaped unhurt.
“God walk, eh boy, God walk, a man strong!” she lamented
Taylor lives alone in a simple wooden house on Taylor Avenue in Bethany, Mt Pleasant.
She said she was awake when her house began to fall at 3 o’clock yesterday. As luck would have it, she made it outside without a scratch.
“I was right in front here,” she said, pointing to a space in the living room that was barely recognisable because of how her belongings, from clothes to appliances, were tossed and turned about when the structure gave way.
“As the door fly off, everything come down. If I was inside to the room there,” she gestured.
She attributed her lucky escape to her deceased parents.
“My father and mother good dead in they grave,” Taylor said.
“I (was) never rude to them, you know? So they stand at my side.”
Taylor Avenue, where she lives, is named after her family.
Her sister and brother both have homes on the street.
Last evening, the entire family met to decide who would shelter her now that she had lost everything.
A team from the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) visited the home to conduct a site visit.
Taylor was also visited by Assemblyman Pastor Terance Baynes, who represents Bethel/New Grange. He brought his colleague, Secretary for Settlements, Public Utilities and Rural Development Ian Pollard.
Baynes said they would come up with an action plan to rebuild a home for Taylor in the same area but not in the same spot.
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