It’s bad enough when the wind blows one tree on your house, but it’s a real disaster when three trees fall on your property.

That’s what happened Thursday morning to Harold Cossich when a severe thunderstorm with high winds came crashing through Slidell.

“It’s all gone,” Cossich said sadly as he looked at the dented remains of his tool shed with huge pine tree branches on the roof and poking through the shed’s windows. Cossich, who lives at 661 Corollo Road, just off Pontchartrain Boulevard, said he was standing in his dining room looking out on his back yard during a lull in the storm when the trees came tumbling down.

“The rain had stopped, and there was no wind,” Cossich remembered. “Then the rain just started pouring down, the wind came up, and I heard a loud pop, and one tree came down on the roof right over my head.”

Two more pops followed, and Cossich watched as one tree demolished his tool shed and another pine fell on his pickup truck, breaking the windshield.

The tree that fell on the house went through the roof and busted several support beams in the attic, Cossich said.

Branches from the tree broke several windows in Cossich’s den, scattering glass all over the floor.

The inside of the tool shed looked like it had been through an earthquake. Boxes and tools had fallen off shelves into a jumbled mass on the floor, and there was a hole in the back wall.

Despite the damage, neither Cossich, his wife nor his daughter were injured.

“Thank God for that,” Cossich said. “Our nerves are a bit rattled, though.”

A crew from AAA Advanced Tree Experts were quick to cut up the downed trees and clean up the mess. But it wouldn’t be able to rest.

The tree service’s owner, Brandon Crowe, said as soon as they were finished with the Cossich home, they had to go remove a tree that had fallen on a home in the Turtle Creek subdivision off Military Road.

Cossich said that insurance will pay for the damage to the house and shed, but he would have to pay for the broken windshield on his truck.

“I only had liability on the truck, and they won’t pay for the windshield,” Cossich explained.

He said he would break out the FEMA blue tarps and put them over the hole in his roof until he can get roofers in for repairs.