Early morning lightning strikes on Tuesday led to two schools in Santa Rosa closing down for the day, including at one site where lightning obliterated a large tree.
The Woodside West School, a preschool on Guerneville Road west of Fulton Road in West Santa Rosa, canceled classes Tuesday morning after lightning struck a large redwood tree on the property. The tree was left in pieces, with one portion puncturing the roof of the school and another crushing a fence.
The school was closed because of the damage…