14:50 GMT
Mollie Perella and Georgia-Levy Collins
BBC Newsbeat
Image source, Tia WhiteIt’s a day of
cleaning up for Tia White, 17, and her family in Cornwall after storm Goretti
blew off her roof and chimney.
Speaking to BBC Newsbeat, Tia says she was watching TV when she heard a bang at about 20:00 GMT on Thursday.
“We looked in the
conservatory and the chimney had fallen off the top of the house onto the roof
of the conservatory and smashed through,” she recalls.
At first, she says her family didn’t know the full extent of the damage and
only realised the roof had caved in when they went upstairs to discover the
panel of the attic entrance had fallen in, exposing the night sky above them.
“It went really smoky, it just smelt funny. We couldn’t really tell that there
was a hole,” she says.
Tia’s house is the first one when you enter her village in St Buryan near
Land’s End, and she feels it took the brunt of the impact of the weather.
Elsewhere in the
village, she says there are trees down and damage in gardens.
“It’s like, what do we do next? Who do we call? How do we get a roof back?”
she asks.
However, Tia says
the community has banded together amid the destruction.
“It’s just really
nice that everyone’s come and helped out and supported us,” she says.
Image source, Tia White