Tree crashes onto house, splits chimney during storms in Northwest Indiana
CHESTERTON, Ind. -- A Northwest Indiana family was counting their blessings Tuesday night after a massive tree landed right on their house during the afternoon storms.The tree was uprooted and landed on the house where Melissa Bergner and her family live in Chesterton.'My husband yelled, 'Babe, tree!' and next thing you know, you heard it hit,' Bergner said.The tree crushed the aluminum siding on the chimney, exposing the wood frame and pink insulation fiber to the street.
'Right where the tree and chimney is, is where our bed is up against the wall,' Bergner said.In other words, it could have been much worse if the tree's trajectory had been just a few inches different.'If you don't laugh, all you're going to do is cry. There's no reason to cry, because we're alive - it's good,' said Bergner. 'It's just a tree. it's just a house.
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