Mr Jones said his Holden Commodore VN, which he had owned for six years, was sitting under an old sheoke tree at his mother-in-law's Haven home.

Mr Jones said his partner and her family had arrived home from a birthday celebration in Horsham to find his car crushed.

He said when they rang him at his work with the news he couldn't believe his bad luck.

"Only this morning the gear box on my other car blew up, so I was planning to come and pick up this car this afternoon," he said.

Mr Jones said another car, metres away on the other side of the tree, was untouched.

His mother-in-law Evelyn Bovell said when they returned to their Haven home they couldn't get through to their driveway.

"They had to get a bulldozer out here to let us through," she said.

Mrs Bovell said the tree that crushed her son-in-law's car had been planted by her father 50 years ago. "The roots were ripped out of the ground," she said. "I just couldn't believe anything as big as this tree would just come down like this."

Mrs Bovell said her dog Nipper had also been caught underneath a fallen tree and she had to drag him out when she returned home.

"He is okay now, luckily he has just got a bit of a limp," she said.

Mrs Bovell said her Haven home narrowly escaped the Remlaw fire earlier this year.

"It was coming straight for us before there was a wind change," she said.

"A couple of months ago the wind saved us; this time we weren't so lucky. It looks like we have been hit by a cyclone."

Mrs Bovell's son Max Bovell said he had kept a weather station on the property but the storm had destroyed it.

Mr Bovell said during Black Saturday on February 7 the wind gauge recorded wind up to 146kmh.

He said the highest wind recorded yesterday measured 176kmh before the gauge blew up.

- To read about more storm damage, see today's Mail-Times.