{"id":182363,"date":"2026-02-18T02:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/182363\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T02:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:42:09","slug":"tree-falls-through-bedroom-in-grass-valley-during-california-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/182363\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree falls through bedroom in Grass Valley during California storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tree fell onto a Nevada County home during Tuesday morning&#8217;s snowstorm, leaving one woman stunned as she returned from work to find her bedroom destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Montano works in the kitchen of Nevada Union High School.  Several schools in Nevada County let out early Tuesday due to the weather.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It started coming down around here around 8 or 9 pretty bad, so I was surprised we were still here,&#8221; Montano said.<\/p>\n<p>Once the schools got word of early release, she got to work on making her car safe enough to drive home after learning a tree tumbled through her house during the morning storm. We followed her home as she went to assess the damage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh my god. I can&#8217;t believe it. It&#8217;s horrible,&#8221; she said upon seeing the damage.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, no one was inside the room \u2014 and that&#8217;s because Montano said it was her bedroom. Montano said she&#8217;s trying to stay positive, but she and her husband had to cancel their planned trip to San Diego to deal with the downed tree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll be sleeping in the living room tonight,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>Montano said the recent snowy weather is making things difficult both at home and at her job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We saw it dumping, and we of course had to get lunch together and the electricity went out, so it&#8217;s always a challenge,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>While rain has been drenching California&#8217;s Central Valley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/sierra-nevada-white-out-i80-highway-50-closed\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">snow has been pummeling the Sierra Nevada<\/a> and Foothills into Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/february-2026-cold-storm\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with more expected this week<\/a>. The snow line dropped significantly since Monday, allowing for fresh snow to cover some of the lower foothills communities like Grass Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tree fell onto a Nevada County home during Tuesday morning&#8217;s snowstorm, leaving one woman stunned as she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,9906,27047],"class_list":{"0":"post-182363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-grass-valley","12":"tag-nevada-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}