A Flint resident is rebuilding her life after what turns into a terrifying moment.
Jacqueline Curtis’s home was directly across the street from the November 22 explosion on Hogarth Avenue.
For the past few nights, she has been sheltered in a hotel facing an uncertain future, but she tells TV5 that she feels lucky because she wasn’t even sure she would survive the disaster.
“I thought it was the end of the world,” Curtis said. “I thought we were going to die. We made it out, and we’re alive, but it’s a miracle.”
She was inside her house when the street house exploded.
“Lights are flying everywhere, everything is falling, we were all stuck in the house because of the debris,” Curtis said. “We had to get out of the back yard and jump the fence. The stuff was still exploding.”
His home is among more than two dozen people who have sustained damage. But the chaos inside is hidden from the outside.
“Everything in there is just destroyed,” Curtis said. “We’re staying at a hotel for a couple of weeks. After that, I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
Curtis said she doesn’t have electricity or gas right now, but she returns every day to pick up the pieces. She tells TV5 that the Red Cross is helping her, slowly bringing some semblance of normalcy.
Curtis said, “Still, it’s unbelievable. Incredible. But we have to slowly start rebuilding and do whatever we can.” “I’m mad, I’m worried because I don’t know what caused it. We don’t know, so we’re only worried that this could happen to us. I just want some answers.”
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