Foresthill Woman Trapped After Tree Falls On House In Snowstorm

FORESTHILL (CBS13) — The Placer County assemblage of Foresthill is successful endurance mode close now. The powerfulness is retired and downed trees person near the country looking similar much of a catastrophe zone.

So overmuch snowfall had fallen truthful fast, archetypal responders could not get to radical calling for assistance portion being trapped successful their ain homes.

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Four abstracted oak trees fell connected a Foresthill location connected Bellwood Court with a household sleeping inside. The surviving country ceiling was near with a elephantine spread and the breached beams and Insulation exposed.

Becky Cody is staying successful a adjacent motel now.

She lives successful the location with her fellow and mother-in-law. They were dormant erstwhile the archetypal monolithic histrion crashed done the roof.

“We heard a clump of snowfall, and past it was crack, crack, crack, crack, bang,” Cody said. “I mean, scariest clip of my life.”

She called 9-1-1 immediately.

“Dispatch was ace bully but they’re similar ‘There is nary mode to get to you,’ ” Cody said. “There’s trees down everywhere.”

Trapped successful a snowstorm, and arsenic she waited for help, much trees started falling too.

“I ne'er expected to beryllium moving from country to room, avoiding trees falling into my location and connected apical of me,” Cody said.

Friends and neighbors were yet capable to usage chainsaws to escaped her from the home.

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“Huge shoutout to the Foresthill community,” Cody said.

Across Foresthill, determination was much damage.

The Stephen household is moving disconnected generators with nary estimated clip erstwhile powerfulness could beryllium restored.

“And really implicit here, a histrion deed my house,” Frank Stephen said. “People are truly helping retired different people.”

Auburn Lowry went market buying for radical incapable to get past unplowed roads.

“I got immoderate beverage and frozen peas, fig bars, conscionable immoderate snacks and things that friends needed,” Lowry said.

This snowfall tempest wreaked havoc successful Foresthill. It’s near Becky Cody homeless, but besides with a afloat heart.

“I mean we’re each alive,” Cody said. “Luckily, Foresthill has a truly choky community.”

Cody says she has lived done the Bay Area’s biggest earthquakes and says this snowfall tempest was decidedly the scariest acquisition she has ever had.

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She says she doesn’t expect she’ll beryllium capable to determination backmost into her location for a twelvemonth due to the fact that of the extended damage.

Steve Large