The governor appeared to take the question about the incident in stride at a news conference.
A 100-year-old oak tree fell on the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee Wednesday as Hurricane Idalia bore down on the Florida coast Wednesday.
As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was meeting with reporters to discuss the state’s response to the August 30 storm, the tree appeared to split under duress from the storm’s high winds, a photo shared by his wife, Casey, showed, falling on top of one of the wings of the house.
While Casey DeSantis and their children—Mason, Madison and Mamie—were in the home at the time, “no one was injured” during the event, she wrote on social media after the incident.
The extent of damage to the house, which was initially built in 1907 before a new version was erected in the mid-1950s, is currently unknown.
