Just six days after closing on their dream home, , were inside when Hurricane Milton hit the Avenir neighborhood.

They thought they’d be safe, but then the unthinkable happened: a massive two-ton dumpster was ripped from the ground and came crashing down on their roof.

“You could see the dumpster right through here,” Bonnie said. “It was like, oh, my god, we got to get out of here. You don't know if the whole roof is going to go down.”

Photos and videos capture the aftermath of Wednesday's terrifying twister that struck the Regency community at Avenir.

“It was like in the movies. The winds were going, things were, you know, swirling there were no cows up there but everything else was going so we ran into the bathroom over here which does not have glass. And it worked. We came out unscathed,” Bonnie said.

Twenty-four hours after the tornado struck, the couple returned to a home they could barely recognize. Their car was totaled, glass was shattered across the ground, and debris was everywhere.

They hadn’t even moved their furniture in yet.

“But more than the money. It's, you know, we're not young, we got to start all over again. You just want to get settled,” Bonnie said.

Now, with water damage, debris, and a gaping hole in their roof, settling in feels like a distant dream.

Yet, they still consider themselves lucky.

“We count our blessings. There’s people north of here that didn’t make it. We’ll be fine, thank you,” John said.

“We’re safe. The bottom line is that we got out okay,” Bonnie added.

The biggest blessing in this neighborhood is that there were no losses of life. Looking at this devastation, it’s clear that someone could have been seriously injured.

But Bonnie and John told WPEC’s Katie Bente they’ll pick up the pieces. At the end of the day, they have the only thing that really matters: each other.