"Then a loud snap echoed from the backyard, just a sliding screen away from her home office in her ranch style home just North of Franklin Park. Shope went out to investigate. "All of a sudden I hear these loud sounds, and it's coming down even more," Shope said. "I'm like, Okay, leaving the backyard now. I came running in the house, and then it just kept going to where now it's covering pretty much my whole house.""
"The huge pine was uprooted, and came to rest on Shope's roof, which she said was replaced just a few years ago. It managed to miss nearby powerlines and did not crash all the way through the roof, but it caused noticeable damage and took out large sections of a white panel fence she recently installed. A huge hole was left in the soil of where the tree once stood."
A windstorm toppled a large ponderosa pine onto Audra Shope's North Spokane ranch-style home near Franklin Park. Shope heard a loud snap outside her home office as she watched neighborhood trees during high winds and then saw the pine uproot and fall onto her roof. The tree missed nearby powerlines and did not penetrate the roof, but it caused noticeable damage, destroyed large sections of a recently installed white panel fence, and left a huge hole where it had stood. Spokane Fire responded and advised that Avista would assist with removal. Shope expects home insurance to cover repairs. This marks the second large backyard pine to fall since she moved in 13 years ago; a prior storm clipped a neighbor's garage.
Read at Spokesman.com
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