Roberta Marske was jolted awake late Monday night when the roof blew off her mobile home in Prairie Acres Estates, cleared the neighbor's mobile home and landed in a yard on the other side.

"There was just this huge noise, and all my figurines were clattering; some fell off the stand and broke," she said. "It was just really, really loud." Marske said the doors on the entertainment stand in her bedroom also flew open.

"It was really freaky," she said. "I didn't know what was going on at first."

Wild winds blew into the area, topping out Monday night at 95 mph near Custer, according to the National Weather Service.

Marske and her roommate, Blake Whealy, owner of the mobile home just off Seger Drive in Rapid City, looked outside to see insulation flying around the home.

It was then they realized their roof was gone, leaving only insulation between them and the night sky.

The damage could have been worse: The roof blew off the mobile home, went over the top of another mobile home and landed in a third mobile home's lawn without hitting any homes or vehicles. Tuesday morning, it lay twisted and mangled on a neighbor's lawn.

"I couldn't believe it didn't hit anything," Marske said. "It's just been a miracle everyone was OK."

The roof came within inches of a small storage shed in the lawn of Vicki Korang's daughter's mobile home.

Korang is staying at the house. Her daughter was not home.

She said she was watching out the window of the other side of the house when she heard the loud bang of the roof landing in the yard.

"It kept me up all night worrying that our roof was going to go, too," Korang said.

Marske and Korang said they were just happy no one was hurt.

Despite windy conditions, two fires early Tuesday morning were put out quickly.

One was on Skyline Drive and burned about 13 acres before firefighters extinguished it. No homes were damaged, and no injuries resulted.

Rapid City fire department officials said a power line likely started that fire.

Another fire several miles east of Hermosa started near the side of a road and was also extinguished before damaging any structures.

Authorities are not sure what started that fire.

Carpenter said moisture is badly needed, but Marske hopes it holds off until her roof can be repaired.

She said there is no insurance on the mobile home, and neither she nor Whealy has the money to pay for the roof to be hauled away, let alone replaced.

"Blake's just out trying to find someone to help us," Marske said Tuesday. "I've just been trying to stay warm and hoping it doesn't rain or snow."

Contact Katie Brown at 394-8318 or katie.brown@rapidcityjournal.com