A tree came down on a Kennesaw, Georgia rental home during an October storm while Kurt Jensen, his wife and their two children were asleep inside, crashing through the roof and splitting the house in half, as FOX 5 Atlanta put it in its report. Everyone got out. Almost nothing they owned did.
Jensen told WSB-TV the tree was “over 75 feet and over 15 tons,” and that he “just climbed out from underneath the tree.” What it left behind was a wrecked house and a second problem the family did not see coming: asbestos.
A House Split by One Tree
FOX 5 Atlanta reported that the tree split the Cobb County home nearly in half. Jensen told the station he woke up to what he described as “a real-life nightmare.”
The family escaped. WSB-TV reported that everyone made it out of the house, with one person suffering minor injuries. The station reported the story on Nov. 5, more than a week after the storm, as the family was still raising money to relocate…