Rescuing and Upcycling Desert Waste Land Drift Trash Metal Roofing

After the biggest storm that had happened since I've been out in the desert, a giant piece of metal roofing drifted in with the wind. It would get picked up in gusts of wind and be carried 10-20 feet at a time. It was a horrible and terrifying sound, the creaking metal flying through the air. The even scarier thing was that I suffered a debilitating injury and I couldn't walk or stand as it was creeping towards my camp. It got closer and closer and I was bracing for it to smash into and break windows out of my shelters. Luckily it's trajectory took a turn away but it was still a threat. I had to just hope it would stay still long enough for me to recover. After a couple of months, the first thing I did when I could barely stand and walk with a walking stick was go over to it, cut it into sections with tin snips, and drag it back to base camp where I could weigh it down with lots of big rocks until later repurposing it for some building projects. You never know what the wind will bring in, I call it drift trash, like drift wood on the shore.