Storm Sends 30-Foot Tree Through NJ Family Home and Now They Have Nowhere to Go
One night, a family in West Orange, New Jersey went to sleep in their own home. By the next morning, they had no legal right to walk back in.
During the same storm system that knocked out power for over 500,000 New Jersey residents in early July 2026, a 30-foot oak tree uprooted entirely and crashed into their home on Yale Terrace. The roots are still sitting there, torn from the ground.
For most people in NJ, this storm was a bad holiday weekend. For this family, it erased normal life overnight.
The Night a 30-Foot Oak Changed Everything
The tree did not just fall. According to News 12 New Jersey, it uprooted completely during the storms and crashed directly into the home’s structure…