The employees of Sugrim Service Station, Crane, West Coast Demerara, got a scare yesterday afternoon when rain, accompanied by heavy winds, lightning and thunder took away the entire roof of their convenience store.
Gas station owner Ramesh Sugrim told the Guyana Chronicle that he was at home when he received a telephone call from one of his employees, who said that the rain and wind took the roof away.
The man added that he hurried to the scene and was told by his staff that “the roof sailed away into an empty lot in some bushes”.
Mr. Sugrim said that he was told that employees heard crackling and whistling sounds and soon there was a heavy wind then the rain came down heavily.
Mr. Sugrim explained that after the rain stopped he and employees managed to retrieve the roof from the nearby lot and put it in his yard.
The man added that a three-storey building in the same compound, which is incomplete, was also damaged as zinc sheets flew off.
Some other residents of Crane village had their roofs damaged in the rainstorm and several trees were uprooted.
Mr. Sugrim stated that since June this year his business had been burglarized and robbed by bandits four times.