Ice-covered tree falls on house in Selma

An ice-blanketed tree fell on a house in Selma Friday evening with a father and son inside.
Posted 1/22/2016, 11:16:00 PM Updated 9/23/2025, 7:51:07 PM

DECIDED NOT TO VENTURE OUT.

>>> IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR THE

TREES TO COME DOWN.

>> WE RECEIVED A NUMBER OF

REPORTS IN JOHNSON COUNTY.

CANDACE.

>> LINDA, WE ALL KNOW WHAT CAN

HAPPEN WHEN ICE CUP LATES ON

TREES.

I SPOKE WITH THE FIRE CHIEF.

HE SAYS SO MANY TREES AND TREE

LIMBS FELL TODAY HE ACTUALLY

LOST COUNT.

THIS IS AROUND 4:30 TODAY ON

NORTH CENTER STREET.

PART OF A LARGE TREE FELL INTO

THIS HOUSE CAUSING SIGNIFICANT

DAMAGE TO THE PORCH AND TO THE

ROOF.

A HUSBAND, A WIFE AND THEIR SON

WERE IN THE HOUSE AT THE TIME,

BUT FORTUNATELY THEY WERE

UNHARMED.

>> ACTUALLY I THOUGHT A TRAIN

JUMPED THE TRACK OVER THERE, IT

WAS SO LOUD IT SHOOK THE WHOLE

HOUSE.

THEN WHEN I CAME OUT THE FRONT

DOOR THAT'S WHEN I FOUND OUT

THE TREE WAS ON TOP OF THE

HOUSE.

>> WHAT'S THE PLAN NOW?

MOVING FORWARD, WHAT ARE YOU

GOING TO DO?

>> SURVIVE, THAT'S ABOUT IT.

>> DO YOU HAVE ANYWHERE TO

STAY, ANYWHERE TO GO?

>> NO.

>> NOW, WE ARE TOLD THE RED

CROSS DID STEP IN TO HELP THIS

FAMILY OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS

BUT OF COURSE THEY ARE STILL

VERY STRESSED OUT ABOUT WHAT

THEY ARE GOING TO DO.

IT WAS SO BAD THAT THE FIRE

CHIEF LEFT THAT SCENE TO GO TO

ANOTHER SCENE.

HE TOLD US THAT HE WOULD PREFER

THAT ME AND MY PHOTOGRAPHER

MOVE TO A DIFFERENT AREA

BECAUSE AGAIN, TREES AND POWER

LINES AND LIMBS WERE JUST

FALLING LEFT AND RIGHT, SO

CERTAINLY A TOUGH TIME FOR THE

FOLKS OUT HERE IN JOHNSON

COUNTY.

>> THANKS FOR THE UPDATE.

>> IT JUST BREAKS YOUR HEART TO

SEE THINGS LIKE THAT HAPPEN.

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