Rough waves swept an el­der­ly cou­ple's home in­to the sea and dam­aged an­oth­er at the beach-front com­mu­ni­ty of West Bayshore, Mara­bel­la over the week­end.

While the el­der­ly cou­ple was forced to seek refuge by their son in Clax­ton Bay, their daugh­ter who lives next door with her four chil­dren is fear­ful that her home might face a sim­i­lar fate.

Seema Ho­sein, a do­mes­tic work­er, said it was the first time in the 17 years that she ever ex­pe­ri­enced such tur­bu­lent waves. She re­called that the around 1 pm on Sat­ur­day, large waves be­gan smash­ing against her par­ents' house as well hers.

"The waves start to hit the house and all the ply­wood start to shake and the posts too. The wood start to fall down and by the time the fourth wave hit, the whole back of the house start to go in­to the sea," said Ho­sein.

She said her sis­ter and broth­er helped their par­ents Man­gree, 70 and Az­iz Ho­sein, 72, to sal­vage some items as their house broke apart.

She re­called, "I stand up by the win­dow bawl­ing. I was feel­ing the vi­bra­tion in my house too. I start to bawl be­cause I feel like my house want to come down too. Me and my chil­dren had to leave the house. We were so fright­ened. Nor­mal­ly, the sea doesn't be like that. Is the first time I see those waves come up so high."

Ho­sein said half of her par­ents' home was swept away while two posts at the rear of her house were dam­aged. Ho­sein is ap­peal­ing for help to re­build her par­ents' home and al­so for help to re­in­force her dam­aged posts.

Ho­sein said she and her chil­dren, ages 18, 16, 14, 11, are now liv­ing in fear that their home will al­so tum­ble in­to the sea. "This wa­ter is dif­fer­ent. I nev­er ex­pe­ri­ence some­thing like this. The sea still rough but is low tide, we are fright­ened what will hap­pen with the high tide," she said.

The Met Ser­vice had fore­cast­ed rough seas over the week­end.

Any­one will­ing to as­sist the fam­i­lies can call 733-6768.