People in North Texas are still working to clean up from Thursday’s storms.
She said she was forced to shield her son from the flying debris when her roof collapsed.
"You know how you are just so tired you don’t know what to do? I am at that point right now," Jaysomi Punch said. Punch sat in the front yard of her Dallas home surrounded by debris, unsure how she plans to start over. Punch is trying to clean up what she can after Thursday’s severe storms tore apart her home near 175 and Murdock Road.Punch and her son had just celebrated his 9th birthday when the storm moved in.
"He started screaming. He was panicking. By the time he was panicking, it was right up on us," she recalled. "Door slammed in and I hit my knee. I had to go to the ER. I fell down trying to shield him. The lights were out. It was a lot. It sucked out my windows." Punch and her son walked outside to see the metal car port twisted, windows blown out, and transformers sparking. "They were just popping, just popping off. There were live wires. It was horrible," she said.The powerful winds blew out windows and knocked down awnings in North Texas."I have been over here 30 something years," she said."I grabbed my husband's hand because everything went black. I saw fire, and I could hear it," she recalled.
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