The dog is fine, but the house has branches sticking out through rooms.
It was not the sight the Jezionek family expected to see as they made arrived at their way home to Maiden Lane in Plainville on Thursday after a neighbor called, asking for permission to break a window and save a trapped pet.
"She was like, can I break the window to get the dog, and I’m like yeah, sure, try to get the animal alive," Thomas Jezionek said.
As storms ripped through the area, they took down a huge pine tree and sent it crashing down onto the house.
"I have branch coming through the bedroom over here, and a branch coming through the hallway," Jezionek said.
The dog made it out of the house, but the tree stayed inside -- one of many that fell with the heavy winds.
The storm unearthed the trees lining a Plainville pond and a section of Cooke Street had to be shut down while crews tried to clear the road of downed trees and power lines.
Jim Yezierski said police officers believe it was a tornado.
The National Weather Service hasn't confirmed if it was in fact a tornado, but the storm was powerful.
"Lot of noise, lot of hail, probably baseball-size hail that came through. At one point, you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face," Greg Gardner, general manager of J. Timothy's restaurant, said.
Outside J. Timothy’s, a tree came down on a car that a woman was in.
"Thankfully, the woman was OK. She actually came into the building and let us know she was one of our manager’s aunts," Gardner said.
The restaurant wasn’t so lucky. It not only lost a couple trees, but also a chimney and a ventilation roof. It will be closed until things get cleaned up and the power is turned back on.
"It was over in a heartbeat, and just an amazing, amazing event, something I’ll never forget," Gardner said.
