South Miami homeowners speaks out after storm sends massive tree crashing onto home and car

A large scale clean-up effort is underway in a South Miami neighborhood after a massive tree came crashing down during Sunday s storm Roberto Elizondo stated he was inside his home on Southwest rd Avenue off th Street when he heard a loud noise but didn t presume it to be much due to the heavy downpours To his surprise he would find his car smashed by the tree I was in the room I had the tv on it was raining I did hear like a thump but didn t make much of it revealed Elizondo When it died down I walked out and the tree was right there in my face The storm was so powerful that it fully up-rooted the large tree from the ground causing it to partially fall onto his home and on top of his car It s one of those things that I mean luckily no one was out here he commented Arborist Ron von Paulus with Big Ron s Tree Utility is tasked with cleaning up the mess He estimates the tree is at least to years old and explained the previous day s fast flooding is likely to blame That little bit of soil is just super saturated and is no longer holding on to the roots he declared So you can have a -mile-an-hour wind on a big sail like the canopy of this tree when the roots aren t grabbing because right this moment there s so much water in the ground and it just falls over While the street was left shutdown for hours on Sunday it has since reopened The focus now is clearing the rest of the debris from Elizondo s property The city warns drivers to expect intermittent closure until the debris is comprehensively cleared from the area