{"id":436459,"date":"2026-04-15T16:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/436459\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:04:12","slug":"powerful-winds-topple-a-tree-onto-a-kentwood-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/436459\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful winds topple a tree onto a Kentwood home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KENTWOOD, Mich. \u2014 While Kent County may not have had an actual tornado, 80 mph wind gusts recorded at Ford International Airport still produced plenty of damage.<\/p>\n<p>A home near 43rd Street and Division Avenue in Kentwood saw a tree snap in half, crushing part of a neighbor\u2019s front porch and landing on several cars.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776269051_109_.jpeg\" alt=\"Kentwood, MI storm damage \"  width=\"1280\" height=\"960\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FOX 17<\/p>\n<p>        Kentwood, MI storm damage<\/p>\n<p> One of the homeowners, Vanessa Vargas, said she and her children were watching the storm from their living room window when it suddenly intensified and they heard wood snapping.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you look outside and see half a tree almost in your house, that&#8217;s scary,&#8221; Vargas said.<\/p>\n<p>Elliot Grandia surveys storm damage in Kentwood Michigan<\/p>\n<p>The tree crushed part of the neighbor\u2019s front porch and landed on two of their cars.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776269051_965_.jpeg\" alt=\"Kentwood, MI storm damage \"  width=\"1080\" height=\"1440\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FOX 17 <\/p>\n<p>        Kentwood, MI storm damage<\/p>\n<p> When they went outside, they could also smell gas, caused by a branch hitting their gas meter. Luckily, Consumers Energy was able to fix it within the hour.<\/p>\n<p>Vargas said she\u2019s just happy her family is safe. &#8220;It\u2019s just money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776269052_3_.jpeg\" alt=\"Kentwood, MI storm damage \"  width=\"1280\" height=\"960\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FOX 17 <\/p>\n<p>        Kentwood, MI storm damage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KENTWOOD, Mich. \u2014 While Kent County may not have had an actual tornado, 80 mph wind gusts recorded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[269],"tags":[59345,193813,18,193814,440,19,17,193815,133,193816],"class_list":["post-436459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-debris","tag-downed-tree","tag-eire","tag-elliot-grandia","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kentwood","tag-science","tag-storm-damage"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116409576495038499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}