Do You Have a 'Zombie Tree' in Your Yard? FL Woman Wishes She Knew Earlier How to Identify Them

The experts call them “zombie trees.” And quite often, homeowners never know that what looks alive is dead inside until a tree comes crashing through the roof.

That was the case on Tuesday in Daytona Beach, 🌴Florida, when a massive oak tree fell onto a house while a woman was sleeping, WRBW reported.

The woman rolled away from the worst of the impact seconds before the tree crashed through the house, but the 102-year-old home she lived in is destroyed.

“God is good. Once again, his grace and mercy spared her,” Edgar Riddick said of his 89-year-old grandmother, Katie Speed.

Could she have figured out what was coming? Experts say it is possible, but not always.

“A zombie tree is a tree that has experienced some kind of disturbance that has caused the tree to become unstable or unsafe but still has the appearance of being a totally healthy tree,” arborist Steven Kendall said, according to WHDH.

Ben Wasielewski, a certified arborist, said zombie trees are “all over the place.”

“You just don’t know what tree is a zombie tree, technically, until you look at them,” he said, according to WESH-TV