She says it was like adding insult to injury.
"With all the devastation and everything going on I thought it was over the top, just too much," she said.
It's her first Comcast Cable bill since Hurricane Ike flooded her Galveston home more than five weeks ago. There's a $66 credit for no phone service, but also a $1,000 charge for not returning her DVR, modem and other equipment.
"That's a lot of money right now," Clemons said.
She thought she could straighten it out with a phone call, she was wrong.
"She told me basically we were responsible for that equipment," Clemons told us.
And Comcast told us the same thing because Cheryl and her husband did not dig through their dirty debris pile to retrieve the equipment and return it.
"That was far down on my list of priorities," she said.
Now she's responsible. She should file the loss with her insurance provider and Comcast promises to give customers, "plenty of time, over 90 days, to be reimbursed before restitution needs to be made."
They understand this is a difficult time, Cheryl isn't so sure.
"[I] never missed a payment cut me some slack," she said. "A lot of people are in a bad place right now so they should think about that."
Cheryl and her husband rented their home. They have renters insurance but she says it won't cover the Comcast equipment. If you're in a similar situation or don't have homeowners insurance, call 1-800-COMCAST. A spokesperson tells me a care agent will work with you.
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