Huge oak tree crashes through ceiling as family sleeps in Chicopee Village

A tree crashed through the ceiling of John Wheeler's home Saturday night, Nov. 18, 2017, as a storm blew through the Chicopee Village area. Chicopee residents have asked the county to remove dead trees in the neighborhood since they are growing between the road and sidewalk, but very few have been removed. The tree that fell on Wheeler's home wasn’t dead or dying, he said. - photo by David Barnes

11212017 CHICOPEE 0001.jpg — A tree crashed through the ceiling of John Wheeler's home Saturday night, Nov. 18, 2017, as a storm blew through the Chicopee Village area. Chicopee residents have asked the county to remove dead trees in the neighborhood since they are growing between the road and sidewalk, but very few have been removed. The tree that fell on Wheeler's home wasn’t dead or dying, he said. - photo by David Barnes

Published: Nov 21, 2017, 2:56 AM

John Wheeler thought of his 14-year-old son in the next bedroom and of his time at war as his living room ceiling crashed into his home. Wheeler, 56, and his fiancee, Melinda Moore, 54, were asleep when a large oak tree crashed through the roof of their Chicopee Village home Saturday night during the storm that hit Northeast Georgia. Wheeler’s son, Carl Wheeler, 14, was asleep in the next bedroom.

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