A large tree toppled Saturday morning with little or no warning onto a house in Montgomery County in what might have been one of the last effects of Thursday's thunderstorms. It was not clear late Saturday why the great oak fell about 7 a.m. in the Colesville area. But it heavily damaged the two-story, single-family house, in the 13500 block of Collingwood Terrace, and trapped a couple inside for a time, said Capt. Oscar Garcia of the county Fire and Rescue Service.
The tree fell less than 48 hours after a punishing storm that snapped tree trunks like flower stalks, but whether it was a delayed consequence was "hard to tell," Garcia said. Garcia said the tree's trunk was several feet in diameter. At least two residents of the street said they had heard that the tree might have been rotten inside.
A Collingwood Terrace resident said she had "no idea" why the huge tree came down. The storm, she said, "may have loosened" its root structure. The tree was "very, very old," said the woman, Judy Siebenberg. Calling the oak "the biggest tree you've ever seen," she said it came down with "a big thump," and the sight of it lying across the neighboring house "was horrific." SOURCE: Washington Post
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