A New Brunswick couple is counting their scrapes and blessings after a roof collapse sent one of them crashing through their Moncton-area home.
Adam Robinson was on the snow-covered roof of the couple’s mobile home in Riverview, N.B. on Thursday, looking for the cause of a leak, while his fiancé was inside calling their insurance company about the problem.
“And all of a sudden I heard a horrendous crash and I dropped the phone and I looked and when I saw Adam he come sliding off the snow on his backside and back right into the kitchen cupboards,” said Gail Morin.
“I thought, he should be on alpine skis that boy,” she said.
A surprised Robinson took a moment to take stock.
“I felt my legs and moved my leg and moved my other leg … and then I said OK and I got up off the floor and I sat in the chair,” he said.
Morin called 911, but when the paramedics arrived they had to go in and out through the window — the collapsed roof was blocking both entrances to the home.
Robinson spent four hours in hospital, but suffered only minor injuries.
The worst of them: a scratch on his ear.
The couple, who are to be married in August, were left temporarily homeless by the incident.
They’ve been living in the mobile home for the last six years, but now they doubt they’ll be able to move back in.
They are being put up in an apartment for the next month while they look for a new home.
With files from CTV Atlantic’s Jonathan MacInnis
