Woman leaves home before tree crash: 'I had a premonition'

To label what happened at an Elk Grove home on Tuesday afternoon as a "close call" might be an understatement -- as a three-decades-old tree toppled into Tracy Tillotson's house.

Tillotson, the homeowner, sensed something before the pine tree came down on Celery Court.

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"I had a premonition," she told KCRA 3. "Something told me to leave the home, so I left for about 10 minutes. And I came back and the tree was in my house."

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Strong winds knocked down trees across Northern California on Tuesday. Two people died in two separate Butte County incidents. And in Davis, a teenage driver escaped serious injury but was still hospitalized after a tree came down on his SUV while driving on Seventh Street.

In Folsom, among other cities, as many as 5,000 people lost power due to a blown transformer. Wind-related issues were rampant by the evening hours.

As for Tillotson, one next-door neighbor heard the crash into her home and came out to look at the damage.

"(I) heard like crack, and something -- like an earthquake or something -- and then, bang! I actually thought something fell on our house," Nicky Slobodnjak said.

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