“Three feet it missed me by.” Amid the noise of the wind and heavy rain, he said he could hear little before the sound of the yurt being torn “and then the thump of that thing hitting the ground.” “It was like the loudest gunshot you ever heard in the world,” said Beland, who had recently moved to the spot because of concerns about another tree. Victoria police responded to the near miss and ensured that everyone was safe. There were also no injuries in another incident where three trees fell on a Sooke house, causing “considerable damage,” according to Sooke communications co-ordinator Christina Moog.