Woman Unharmed After Tree Crashes Into Her Bedroom

Amanda Shank celebrated four months cancer free just hours before Friday night's storm brought a tree and the roof crashing down on top of her.

Nancy Shank had just laid down in bed Friday night when she saw a flash of lighting out the window of her home on Coachway at approximately 11 p.m.  "The next thing I knew I heard a huge boom and a scream," Shank said. The scream came from her daughter Amanda Shank. A large poplar tree on their property had fallen tearing through the house, and it came to a stop right above her bed. "It actually felt like an earthquake," Amanda Shank said. "I actually didn't see the tree at first. I tried to sit up; that's when the trusses from the roof and all the insulation fell on me. I didn't think; I just ran out." Amanda Shank lives in Arlington, VA. She was in Annapolis this weekend for her three month checkup with her oncologist. She is four months…

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