Neighbors are working to help the family recover what they can and help them find a temporary place to stay. Then, a house next door had a car flipped into its front yard.
Strong winds knocked down trees and power lines, while large hail dented cars and crashed through windows in many places around the region.
A man who lives just off Wilmington Pike near Whipp Road said a tree snapped and missed him by about 10 feet. It fell into his home and the hail followed.
"I walked toward the Florida room (and heard a) big crunch," said John May. "There was hail. It was the size of golf balls. And then the water just poured in."
Another man who lives near Wilmington Pike said his family took cover.
"It was pretty intense," Jim O'Brien said. "We hid in the bathroom. They say to listen for the freight train. We thought we heard it coming, so we jumped in there."
Storm Center 7's Jamie Simpson, Chief Meteorologist at WHIO-TV, said Wednesday night’s storms brought the largest widespread hail the region has seen in more than a decade. Hail two to three inches in diameter was reported in several areas.
“We get wind damage like this two or three times each spring,” Simpson said, but the large amount and size of the hail was unusual. Simpson said.
In Sugarcreek Township, authorities are investigating reports of a funnel cloud that was spotted near Wilmington Pike and Feedwire Road.
A man was trapped in his car when a tree fell near Five Seasons on Feedwire. He suffered minor injuries. Nearby, there was damage to the roof of the Chipotle Restaurant on Wilmington Pike.
At one point Wednesday evening, much of the area was under a tornado warning and residents were told to take shelter.
"This storm produced golf ball sized hail and damaging straight-line winds," said Simpson. "This one of the largest super-cell storms that we have seen in a long time."
Reports of golf-ball sized hail came from places like Centerville, Bellbrook, Beavercreek and Xenia, devastated by a tornado in 1974.
Rich Sisson of Xenia said, "We've got neighbors with skylights broken and aluminum siding, the whole side was hit."
"The wind was sideways. We couldn't see anything, so we went to the basement," said Denise Kepler.
Other Xenia residents rode out the storm at work.
Darrell Rodin said, "We lost an ice cream shop in 1974 and I said, not in 2011 too."