PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Thomas Budd was working in his Briarwood Lane home office Tuesday when he heard what he thought was a car crashing into his house.
When he got outside, he found out it was a tree crashing into his roof.
A tree fell onto the roof of Thomas Budd’s home in Portsmouth Tuesday. (WAVY viewer photo – Thomas Budd)
“Well, I was at my desk in my office in there,” he said, pointing to his home, “and I’m sitting down looking at my computer, and all of a sudden, I hear this boom, and the house actually shook. I couldn’t believe it. I was like, what the heck was that? I thought maybe a car might’ve crashed into my house or something, so I came down through the garage right here and out the back door, and I saw the leaves all over the place, and like, what the heck?…