A Milwaukee woman says she is lucky to be alive after a tree collapsed onto her and her stepfather as they walked toward their home Tuesday afternoon.
Michelle Broaden, a soon-to-be mother, was returning from work with her stepfather, Jeff Posey, when a massive branch snapped and came down in the Lincoln Creek neighborhood on the city’s north side.
“It literally happened so fast,” Broaden said. “We couldn’t run, we couldn’t move. It was coming down.”
Broaden said there was no strong wind when the branch fell, only a brief gust. At first, she thought the crash was a car accident. By the time she realized it was the tree, Posey had acted…