It was approximately 11:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8., as the Blizzard of 2013 began dumping more than a foot of snow on the region, leaving thousands without power.

Shirley Oldfield had gone to bed early that night. After all, the power had already gone out at her Kristin Lane home, located inside the Garden Homes North mobile home park.

She woke when something hit her.

“I thought someone was breaking into my house,” she recalled.

Nobody was breaking into Oldfield’s home but, perhaps just as chillingly, a ceiling panel had fallen on top of her… because a massive tree adjacent to her home had uprooted, crashed through the roof, and impaled the bed where she was sleeping.

“I was in so much shock, I couldn’t even call 911!” said Oldfield, who residents may recognize from the Selectmen’s office at Town Hall.

She called a friend.

“I said, ‘Are you awake?’” Oldfield recalled.

“I am now…” the friend responded.

And Oldfield said: “I’ve got a tree in my house!”

More jarring than the fact that a tree was in her house was the fact that the tree struck her bed right where she normally slept.

Fortunately, Oldfield had curled up while sleeping that night, perhaps because it was so cold during the power outage.

“Thank God,” Oldfield says, “because if I didn’t [curl up], it would have got me.”

She escaped without injury.

The Wareham Fire Department allowed her to get some of her clothing, and blocked off the house with bright yellow tape that reads: “FIRE LINE DO NOT CROSS.”

“A firefighter said I’m a lucky lady,” Oldfield said. “I must have had a guardian angel.”

Oldfield is currently displaced while she waits for her insurance company to complete its investigation. The roof above her kitchen was also damaged by the tree.

“It’s just a mess,” she says.

But, she is alive.