‘It’s really, really awful’: Residents of the Oak Cliff Apartments pick up the pieces after March 2 storm

The sounds of generators echoed in the courtyard of an apartment building on Lancaster Avenue in Oak Cliff. Families had to navigate a treacherous obstacle course due to the hurricane.

“We were outside. It happened in one minute,” said Elda Peralta, who suffered from the storm.

Peralta and her husband barely managed to get to their apartment and hide in a closet.

“It’s like a big train is coming here,” Peralta said, describing the sound. “Very, very bad noise. Very bad!”

Peralta said the damage was done within a couple of minutes. Her windows were broken. The ceiling of her living room on the first floor, sagging from the rain that had poured in when the storm tore the roof off a huge part of her building.

“Never in my life. This is my first experience,” said Peralta. “It’s really terrible. Terrible!”

Peralta said she slept in her car Thursday night.

American Red Cross The disaster assessment team was out taking photos and taking notes to see how to help the people living on Lancaster Avenue.

“Regardless of the cause, whether it’s straight-line winds or whatever, we just want to take care of people,” said Jen Edwards, disaster management program manager for the American Red Cross. “You can’t help but be sad because you’re seeing all these people displaced from their homes and we want to make sure they’re taken care of, which is why we’re gathering this information.”

“Look at everything as if the windows are broken, everything outside,” Peralta said. “It was terrible. It was terrible”.

No word on whether National Weather Service classified what swept through the neighborhood as a tornado or something else.

“But thank heavens, we’re fine,” Peralta said.

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