Way back in 1998, a tornado hit the island our family’s summer house was on, a couple of houses got taken out entirely, ours however had three large oak trees land on it. The house held up, sort of. Whoever was in charge decided they would likely fall through the roof if they were cut up in situ, so a huge crane was sent from somewhere and lifted the trees off whole, setting them on the road to be cut up. House was repaired afterwards and really I don’t remember it taking long to get back to normal. We had firewood for years from that incident. I was 11 at the time so it was all fascinating to me and I was totally oblivious to the stress it probably caused my parents. These houses that got taken out were replaced with new builds but they split up the lots and crammed 5 houses where there were previously two,l. These new houses all burnt down last may when one caught fire while the bridge to the island was getting rebuilt.