Massive Water Oak Falls on Page Avenue Home and Leaves Atlanta Couple Counting Their Lucky Stars
I’ve covered a lot of storm damage stories, but this one stopped me cold.
On May 28, a massive water oak came crashing down on a home along Page Avenue in Candler Park, northeast Atlanta. It didn’t just damage the roof. It split the house in two. Steven Renner and his wife were inside when it happened.
They walked out alive. That’s the only good part of this story.
“It Sounded Like a Violent Storm”
Renner described the impact as thunderous. The house shook, the ground shook. Within seconds, what had been a peaceful backyard garden built over years, full of birds and bees, looked like, in his own words, a bomb had gone off…