"It was the biggest tree outside, it's gone across the entire living room, it's destroyed it,"he said.
"It's probably 20 metres tall, if it had come down on the house it would have destroyed it and probably could have killed the family."
"That's inevitable due to the number of power lines down at the moment,"he said.
"It could be 200 to 300 millimetres of rain today into tomorrow and flooding is still a risk for our region."