Strong wind gust at 50 mph caused a family in north Omaha to awaken to an uninvited guest inside their home: a tree.
According to 911 dispatch, the call came in just before 2 a.m. Friday near 51st and Curtis avenues.
The large tree, which used to stand between two houses, crashed into a deck and partially landed in the kitchen - busting out windows, bringing down electrical wiring without knocking out the power.
Cordai Beck, 10, awoke in the middle of the night when he said he heard a large "boom."
It sounded like a volcano erupting, he told 3 News Now.
"All of a sudden, I heard a big boom. So [my and I] ran into the middle of the room wondering what happened and we looked at the kitchen and we saw a big tree going into our screen door," he says.
The family says the crash didn't hurt anyone.
Apparently, I'm deaf. Didn't hear powerful winds. An Omaha family did. Woke up to an uninvited guest in their house: a tree @3NewsNowOmaha pic.twitter.com/pxRMNGmevz
— Shawnte Passmore (@ShawntePassmore) March 24, 2017
