Imelda Ellefson-Majeski had turned off her bedroom light around 10:30 p.m. Friday and was beginning to fall asleep when the sound of an explosion shook her New Glarus home.

For a moment, she wondered whether someone had set off a large firework. Then her neighbors appeared at her front door.

Together, they walked from the entryway into the home’s open living area. Two enormous tree branches had punched through the roof.

“There were two big, huge branches impaled in the house,” Ellefson-Majeski recalled during an interview Saturday, while only operating on an hour of sleep.