HAUSER LAKE – Lynn Peterson was enjoying a quiet Saturday night at home when she heard something.

Then the house shook.

“The cat and I were very scared,” Peterson said.

Her house went dark when the power went out.

Peterson called a granddaughter who lives across the lake.

“Do you have power?”

“Yes. Don’t you?” came the answer.

Peterson, who has lived in Hauser Lake for 50 years, said she had never felt anything like what she experienced. It was as if a great force had come and gone.

“My house was shaking,” she said.

Later, Peterson went upstairs and looked out the back door. She had nowhere to go even if she wanted to. A piece of tree and branches had covered her yard earlier that day.

She looked next door and saw that a large pine tree, long rooted in the neighbor’s yard, had been knocked down and had fallen toward the corner of the house and onto her neighbor’s roof.

It pierced a front wall and a window, entered the brick chimney and pushed out part of a side wall before coming to rest, narrowly missing Peterson’s house.

On Monday, Peterson’s house was still without power and she was fielding calls to her insurance company.

Nolan Gaul of Nolan’s Family Tree Service cleaned up Peterson’s backyard on Monday.

He estimated the tree was about 120 feet tall. He expected it would take several days to remove the tree from both properties.

A strong but brief storm hit Hauser Lake late Saturday, causing waves and other less serious damage.

Gaul called what was rolling in a “microburst.”

“That’s my best guess,” he said.

According to the National Weather Service, a microburst is “a downdraft in a thunderstorm that can cause strong winds and damage.”

Peterson said it was the calm before the storm.

“It just flew through the place and then it was over,” she said.

The owners of the house were not at home when the press was on site and could not be reached for comment.

Nolan Gaul of Nolan’s Family Tree Service removes parts of a tree from a home on Hauser Lake on Monday.