Massive trees fall through 88-year-old woman’s Madison County home

Photo courtesy J. Pinnock | Video: Peggy Jeppesen, EastIdahoNews.com

BURTON — An 88-year-old female and her boy are fortunate to beryllium live aft 2 monolithic trees collapsed done their location Thursday evening.

Nancy Hinckley was wrong nan location connected South 5000 West successful Burton erstwhile she heard a large sound astir 6:45 p.m.

“My mom was successful her chamber and my relative was successful nan surviving room erstwhile a microburst came through,” Hinckley’s son, Corey Hinckley, tells EastIdahoNews.com. “The upwind took down 3 Cottonwood trees and 2 of them landed connected nan house.”

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Nancy called Corey and told him what happened. He drove complete to his mother’s location and was shocked to spot his puerility location destroyed.

“It smashed correct done nan tile and took retired our house. My mom was successful daze and it’s astonishing cipher was killed,” Corey Hinckley explains.

Corey says nan location was built successful 1939 and his mother has lived location since nan early 1960s.

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Madison County knowledgeable thunderstorms and dense winds Thursday nighttime pinch a Rexburg–Madison County Airport upwind position measuring a 52 mph upwind gust astir 7:30 p.m., according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Andrew McKaughan.

“A microburst tin nutrient harm comparable to a anemic tornado. Some person reached speeds up to 100 mph but they are mostly little than that,” McKaughan says. “Microbursts are very difficult to forecast. They’re fundamentally localized columns of sinking aerial that deed nan aboveground of nan crushed and dispersed outward successful a information pattern.”

There were nary reports of harm to different homes aliases structures but Nancy’s location is apt a complete loss. She is staying pinch her girl arsenic nan Hinckleys fig retired a much imperishable plan.

“The astir important point is that cipher mislaid their lives. It’s miraculous, really,” Corey Hinckley says.

Peggy Jeppesen, EastIdahoNews.com