WASHINGTON — A Maryland man says had an unusual start to the morning after a tree fell on his car, barely missing him as he was driving down the road.

It happened on River Road near Western Avenue in Northwest D.C. around 9 a.m. Wednesday. Firefighters and workers from Pepco were called to the scene after neighbors reported a tree down on a vehicle.

Firefighters were able to get the man out of his car unhurt. Power crews were working to restore power in the area since the fallen tree knocked down a power pole.

"I hear crunch crunch crunch and I ducked down... It landed all around me," the driver, Arthur Arnoff, told WUSA9. "It didn't break roof, it didn't break glass."

Arnoff said he's lucky to be alive.

"Just outside my passenger window there's like an 18-inch piece that's at mirror

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