Today's Article

Kyle Range showed us inside his home, where it's still safe. This is the 2hallway and front door that from the outside, you can't even see up the front 3steps. 

“Just a 4massive 5cracking noise. And then, you know, 20 seconds later, I came down.”

He and his four-year-old son were on the floor playing around six Sunday night when a 6burst of 7high winds 8toppled the tree onto the house. It's more than 110 years old. 

“I wanted to stand here to give you an idea just how big this 9root ball is. A good nine to 10ft tall and maybe 15ft 10across.”

And it fell right on the front room. 

“Thank God we weren't in there. That's usually where he 11takes a nap.”

Kyle's baby boy was with his wife in their back bedroom. 

“Ceiling 12fell off here. I ran out in the hallway. I came out here, looked and saw the ceiling on the floor. Giant dust cloud. My family's in our bedroom back here. Ran, make sure they were okay.”

Tree crews are now cutting away the large branches and the family's 13salvaging what they can and getting a better look at the 14damage, knowing they could have easily been killed. 

“My nine-month-old was 15napping, and he usually naps in there, and there’s 16cribs in there. There's little play pins completely 17flattened. If it happened at a different time, we could have easily both been in there.”