Haley Johnson heard such a clatter, felt her house shake and then nearly shatter, but she was sure it wasn’t Old Saint Nic. “It felt like an earthquake,” The nine-year-old Johnson said. “It was loud. It sounded like the ground cracked.” Johnson was home with her sister, step-brother and her mother’s boyfriend Sunday morning as around four inches of rain dropped, loosening trees’ roots’ grip on saturated soil. When wind gusts of more than 50 miles per hour came, trees toppled. A more than 100-year-old and more than 100-foot-tall cedar narrowly missed Johnson’s bedroom when it crashed to the ground …













