CLEARFIELD TWP — Mary Arnold woke up at daybreak Friday and got herself into the chair in her bedroom to look out the window at yet another wintry scene.

“If I had looked to my left, I would have seen my roof laying there,” she said.

Arnold, whose modest mobile home sits on Snyder Lane across from a windswept farm, eventually went back to bed and woke up later to Herman Volunteer Fire Department firefighters and neighbors banging on her door to report her roof had blown off in the gusty winds Thursday night.

“I heard a weird noise at about 3 a.m.,” Arnold said late Friday morning. “I knew it was the roof, but I didn't know it did what it did.”

About three quarters of the black roof lay in a crumpled heap beside her car, which firefighters told her was not struck in the freak accident.

Pink insulation on top of the home flopped about in the high winds.

Arnold, who uses a wheelchair, was shocked when she saw the roof laying in the driveway.

“I didn't know what to think,” she said. “I was like 'Oh my God, why?'”

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