A Scotts Valley woman receiving disability benefits lost the mobile home she owned when a tree fell on it in the middle of the night as she slept inside
Susan Shields, 54, was put up in a motel by the American Red Cross for three nights and a church for several more nights after the windstorm that destroyed her home, but she is looking for help and a place where she and her two dogs can live.
“The tree came down on my house and almost killed me,” Shields said this week. “It was terrifying, because I was asleep.”
The tree fell a little after midnight Dec. 1.
Shields said the home where she had lived for 12 years was fully paid off, but not insured. She rented the space in the Forrest Hills Mobile Home Park on Scotts Valley drive.
Neighbor Jane Pennington, a friend of Shields, can attest to the situation.
“It’s really a struggle,” Pennington said. “She had car trouble, and we all chipped in and gave her a new radiator.”
Shields, who is studying to be a teacher, said this week that she hopes to find a lawyer to try to recoup damages from the mobile home park, because the tree that fell, she said, should have been cut back years ago.
“She doesn’t know where she is going to go,” Pennington said.
Those who wish to help Shields can call Jane Pennington, 438-5383.
