Jeanette and Anthony Hansen look over the base of the tree that was uprooted by wind last night and landed on their house.
Sleeping in their Paddock Lake home last night, Jeanette and Anthony Hansen both missed what the night’s high winds did to change their landscaping.
Neither Jeanette, whose bedroom is downstairs, or Anthony, whose bedroom is upstairs, realized until this morning that 40 to 50 mph winds from very early this morning ripped up by the roots a 75-foot tall pine tree in their yard. The tree fell to the north, landing on the roof of the Cape Cod style home, where this morning it appeared to be supported by a gable and a branch from another tree in the front yard.
Jeanette said she heard a lot of noise last night as the winds came through, but nothing she associated with a tree landing on the roof. After daylight, she looked out and saw branches where they usually are not and thought a branch might have blown down. Only when she got outside did she see a whole tree from her side yard had been uprooted.
The tree also bent a chain link fence when it fell. Jeanette was waiting for a call from her insurance company to figure out her next step.
This has been a bad year for trees in the Hansen yard. A heavy snowfall this winter caused another tree branch to break and land on the garage roof.
When someone comes out to remove the fallen tree, Jeanette said she is considering having a similar pine tree located off the southwest corner of the home cut down at the same time to try to prevent a repeat of today’s incident.
And don’t count on new trees being replanted in the same spots.
“No more trees near the house,” Jeanette said.
A branch broke off this tree also in the Hansen yard this winter after a heavy snowfall. That branch landed on the garage roof.
