‘I’m very blessed’: 3 children OK after large tree crashes through bedroom

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Three children who were fast asleep in their bunk beds escaped serious injury after a large tree toppled onto their west Charlotte home, crashing through their bedroom ceiling.

The tree came crashing down around 2:30 a.m. onto the house on Old Steele Creek Road, near West Boulevard.

BLESSED! That’s how a father is feeling this morning after this large tree fell, sending branches through the roof and into his children’s bedroom. A tree branch settled just a few inches from where his son was sleeping. Thankfully, his 3 kids were NOT hurt. @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/fcv4ixrCTn
— Gina Esposito (@GinaWSOC9) February 4, 2020

Large branches busted through the roof and plunged dangerously into the room where the three children were sleeping in their bunk beds.

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The children’s father, Abdikadir Arab, let Channel 9 inside the home to see the extensive damage to the room. He said he could not believe what happened and feels incredibly lucky that his children were not seriously hurt.

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“I walked down to the hallway and I see, and I hear the noise that something is cracking,” he told Channel 9. “I look in my kids’ room -- the whole room is busted -- there’s a big tree, a whole branch that fell into their room, almost struck one of my kids.”

Inside the room, a large branch came crashing through the ceiling, landing right next to a bunk bed, inches away from where one of the boys was resting his head on a pillow.

Tree crashes through family's west Charlotte home (WSOC)

Arab said a piece of plywood with nails in it also landed on his son's legs. When it happened, Arab said his kids -- ages 10, 8 and 4 -- were all calling for their dad.

“I’m shocked man. I’m shaking not because its cold -- I can’t believe what happened,” he said. “Like, where my kids were -- it could have been a different story right now. I don’t worry about the house, but my kids man.”