MINOT (AP) - Missy Andrist says she had just walked out of her mobile home after she found the roof sagging from heavy rain, when the walls began to buckle.

She sent her husband, Rick Stevenson, to get help from his brother, who lives next door.

"I thought if we could get some of the water off, we could maybe at least keep it from collapsing. And then, something just told me to get out," Andrist said.

"I came to the door and got about right here (about 3 feet from the entrance) and the whole thing just cracked and the walls buckled, and that was it," she said.

"I stood right out there and saw it when the walls (fell in when the roof collapsed), and we heard it go down; it was not fun."

Her husband crawled under the rubble to get their dog, and called the power company to shut off electricity, she said.

"And after that, we just sat here and cried," Andrist said. "My sisters-in-law and I sat here and cried."

The rain had pelted the area Tuesday, and Andrist's home collapsed after it no longer could support the weight of the water it collected.

Andrist had gone to a friend's house with her sister-in-law, who lives next door, to wait out a tornado warning. When she and her husband returned to their home, they did not realize the extent of the damage at first.

"We walked in the house and didn't really notice it because, like I said, you don't really look up while you're walking," Andrist said. "Walked across the living room and I looked up and went, 'Oh, my God,' and the roof was about 2 inches above my head," she said.

Family, friends and neighbors have been quick to pitch in and help. Within 24 hours of the collapse, the living room had been cleared and a makeshift roof of tin and tarp was held up by wooden beams so the couple could get their furniture out.

"The furniture isn't in too bad of a shape, but all my electrical stuff, my TV, my VCR, all of that is gone," Andrist said Wednesday.

Just last summer, the couple paid off their home. "And no insurance, because, you know, like I said, it's a 35-year-old trailer and it's …" Andrist said, her voice trailing off.

She and her husband likely will scrap the home for parts because it would be too expensive to fix it, she said. They are staying with relatives temporarily.