SEATTLE — A powerful windstorm swept through the Puget Sound region Wednesday night, bringing down trees and power lines across the area — including a towering hemlock that crashed through a home in Seattle’s Maple Leaf neighborhood, touching three properties on Northeast 95th Street.
The Bailey family woke Thursday morning to find the massive tree had uprooted from a neighboring yard and stretched from that home’s edge, over their own house and into a third property down the street. Their home sustained the most damage.
The destruction was visible from outside the house, where a partially collapsed ceiling could be seen through a window…