Some stories begin with the line, “ A funny thing happened…” But, for Jim and Lula Mae Sears, the word funny should probably be replaced with the word lucky.
A lucky thing happened April 4 while Jim Sears was walking to his garage. A tree fell onto the couple’s Pennsbury Township house. What’s good for the Sears is that there were no injuries, just some damage to the roof.
Lula Mae Sears was not home at the time, and she says that was good since she could have easily been cross stitching in the bedroom near the sliding glass doors to the deck, one of the areas where the tree hit.
“ You’d have to pick me off the ceiling had I been there,” she said.
Jim Sears said he was walking to the garage when he heard a noise.
“ Living here, you know the sound of a tree when it’s about to fall,” he said.
He turned in time to see the big tree snapping near its base and come crashing down onto the home on Pocopson Road.
With no one hurt and the home structurally sound, all that Jim Sears had to do was call the tree service and his insurance agent. He said the insurance agent gave him a claim number right away.
While there was wind that day, the wind was only partly responsible, Jim Sears said. The tree trunk broke along a diseased area, an area they normally don’t see.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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