A Knappa couple was left reeling after a tree fell on their home Tuesday night, demolishing two bedrooms and nearly crushing their teenage son.

Beverly Nelson and Michael Rethati had been waiting out the storm after their power went out. Nelson told her son, Zachary, to stay under his loft bed at his desk if he wanted to be in his bedroom at the back of the home, as the tree loomed right outside his window.

“He was sitting at his desk, next to his bedroom window, when all of a sudden we just heard a big crashing sound,” Nelson said. “The whole house shook, and things were falling off of shelves and breaking all over the place, and we realized that it was the tree in the back.”

Nelson and her partner rushed to the back of the home to find that the tree had come crashing down, destroying her son’s bedroom. They called out for him, fearing the worst.

“We finally heard him, under there, yell back, ‘I’m alive,’ after we yelled for him two or three times,” she said. “And we asked him if he could crawl out, if he was able to move, or if he was pinned in. And he was actually able to crawl himself out.”

Her son emerged from the wreckage with cuts, scrapes and a concussion. But for the most part, Nelson said, he’s doing OK.

“Pretty much everything he owns is destroyed,” she said. “But yeah, he was in pretty much the only little hole that was in the back room, everything else was just crushed. I don’t even know how he fit into that little spot that he crawled out of, because we looked at it the next day and we’re not sure how he even survived.”

The two back bedrooms, one of which belonged to their daughter, Mikayla Blackwell, before she moved out, were a complete loss.

Blackwell created a GoFundMe page for her parents. She said in a statement that her parents both have upcoming surgeries, are low income and are physically unable to work to either move or rebuild.

“We’re not really sure what we’re going to do,” Nelson said. “The rest of the front of the house is pretty much usable, so we still have, like one bedroom and the living room and the kitchen still works OK … I’m not sure if we’re going to end up staying here and just using the front of the house, or if we’re going to end up living with family.

“Basically, living here with our really cheap rent was the best way we had to deal with our medical problems, and now we have the medical problems and are not really sure if we’re going to still live here or have a place to live … We’re just trying to take it one moment at a time, trying to figure out what to do next.”