Home owner Sam Skaggs pauses while describing his ordeal when a tree with a base diameter of around 5-feet fell directly on his house at around 2 a.m. today. (Courtesy/James Poulson, Daily Sitka Sentinel)

A Sitka man narrowly escaped serious injury when gale-force winds early this morning pushed a large Sitka Spruce tree onto the roof of his home at 504 Charteris Street.

Sam Skaggs told the Daily Sitka Sentinel on Monday that he was…