Clean up underway after massive tree topples in front of metro Atlanta family home

DECATUR, Ga. — After severe overnight storms took out trees and powerlines across the metro, thousands are still without power.

Channel 2’s Justin Carter was along Oakview Drive in Decatur where cleanup is underway.

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Nine-year-old Miles Brown and his brother Ethan got a shaking up last night.

“I was shaking. I get really nervous when stuff like this happens,” Brown said.

Overnight storms and wind were so strong a massive tree next door, tumbled down and crashed in their front yard and their roof on McKoy Street.

They were inside with their mother.

“There’s been severe lately. So, I asked her if there were severe. I thought at least lightning came through the house,” Miles Brown said.

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They got a big surprise when the sun came up and saw how bad it was.

Around the corner on Oakview Drive, crews working to clear two trees and a utility pole that snapped onto these electric lines.

“It struck it out,” Brown said.

They’ll be okay and they’re thankful for that.

But two days before school starts, they say this was the last thing they needed.

“I would never thought it would be this major,” Ethan Major said.

There were no reports of any injuries, but there has been a number of utility and cleanup crews working hard to get things back to normal.

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