An Atlanta man came within a couple of feet of being hit by a large tree that came crashing into his home Thursday morning.
Neighbors told the AJC that the tree, which had stood in the corner of the Holsey Temple C.M.E. Church’s parking lot, had been leaning for some time, and had partially fallen earlier this month.
About 7 a.m. Thursday, the tree fell through the roof of Jerry Miles’s Charlotte Place home and into his living room.
“The tree just come tumbling down on the house,” Miles said.
“It tore the roof up and tore the wires down,” said Miles, who was in his living room when the tree came down.
“Another two or three feet and I’d be dead,” Miles, 64, told the AJC. “I feel kind of shaken up about it.”
Neighbor Melissa White said the tree had been leaning on another tree for several days.
“We’ve been concerned about it for a whole week,” she said. “They should have went on and cut the tree down. That was too close for comfort.”
Saterria Daniel, who has lived next door to Miles for four months, was still in bed when the tree fell.
“When I heard something say ‘boom,’ I jumped straight up, and I ran to the door and noticed that the tree had done fell,” she said.
“My kids came running outside and I told them to stay back, because there were so many live wires in the road, they were everywhere,” Daniel said.
“Last week, Georgia Power was here, they had tree cutters here and everything, but for some reason, the owner of the church didn’t want it to be cut, so this is what happened,” Daniel said. “It fell onto those people’s house.”
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