Trees Fall, Damaging Two Houses on Chase Drive

"It woke me up real fast. I'll put it that way," Chris Bruch said of the tree that fell on his Chase Drive home 2:30 a.m. today.

overnight knocked trees onto two houses along Chase Drive, a side street that branches off of Lake Shore Boulevard in Mentor.

The tree that fell on the back of Bruch's house broke through his roof and smashed a white, brown and orange trailer that was parked in the driveway.

Bruch said nobody in his family was hurt, but the tree did give them a disconcerting wakeup call.

"It was like World War III," he said.

Down the street, another tree fell on a neighbor's garage.

Denise Magas, who lives across the street from the second home, said she could feel the impact from her house.

"Our home shook a little bit," she said.

Fortunately, the person who lived at the second house was not inside when the the tree fell so he, too, was not hurt, Magas said.