OUCH....
Another couple seconds and she would be in much worse shape than a little hurt.
That was too close a call.
I was reading another person’s account in which, in probably a bit under Cat 1 conditions by her estimation, the poster had branches repeatedly blown into power lines near their house. Said branches caught fire and then blew or dropped onto their roof and back yard — so they had to go out in the storm a few (or several?) times to drag burning branches off the roof or away from the house and stomp out the fire(s). This while transformers were blowing up all around (”like the 4th of July” was the description.) At some point, they observed a small tornado ripping through the rear of their neighbor’s property and down the street.
Now they have the post-storm problems to deal with — it’s hard to imagine so many people still without power* — but fortunately for that family, they did not flood or suffer major house damage. To think this storm could have so easily been much worse...
*My family was in the 2009 mid-south ice storm, and that was bad enough. Wikipedia says over 2 million people were out of power, in that one, at the worst point. I was hearing numbers like nearly 16 million, at one time, for Irma???)