HAYDEN — Nyah Conant heard a thunderous crack on Tuesday night, then debris from her bedroom ceiling showered onto her.

"Everything blackened out, and I screamed," the 17-year-old said.

A ponderosa pine that crushed her Hayden home on Kelly Rae Drive was among the damage in Kootenai County caused by Tuesday night's wind and lightning storm.

"I heard an explosion — I guess that was the transformer — then I heard her scream," said Tiffinay Walker, Nyah's mother. "She was covered in insulation and drywall dust when I got to her room."

Walker said she feared the worst when she checked on her daughter, who thankfully was uninjured.

"There's only been a couple times in my life when I've had those feelings I can't explain," Walker said.

The tree ripped through the ceilings of two bedrooms, displacing the family. Insurance is paying for a hotel for at least a portion of the time the family will be displaced, Walker said.

Nyah said the incident destroyed her lizard tanks, but the lizards survived.

"This could have always been 100 times worse," she said.

Kootenai County Sheriff's Office Lt. Ryan Higgins said central dispatch had 178 calls for service during the 90-minute storm.

"Most of the calls were trees down and electrical and traffic hazards," Higgins said.

That works out to nearly two calls per minute.

"The dispatchers did an amazing job of prioritizing emergencies and assigning units to respond," Northern Lakes Fire District spokesman Chris Larson said.

Wind gusts in Kootenai County reached 53 mph in Post Falls, according to the National Weather Service. Skywatchers recorded 57 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in Kootenai County and 297 in Spokane County. An area north of Coeur d’Alene Airport received 0.27 inches of rain.

Two men, ages 19 and 43, were injured by a falling branch as they were walking back from a dock on Lower Twin Lake on Covey Lane near Camp Twinlow.

Responders said the 19-year-old was transported to Kootenai Health with non-life threatening injuries.

Higgins said there were several fires throughout the area, but all were quickly contained and there was no fire damage to structures.

Crews from Kootenai County Fire and Rescue, Hauser Lake and the Idaho Department of Lands responded to a wildland fire along the north side Coeur d'Alene Lake Drive just east of the Bennett Bay Resort.

"The fire was started by a lightning strike to a tree, according to witnesses," Kootentai County Fire and Rescue Chief Warren Merritt said.

Citizens tried to put out the fire before the fire department arrived.

The fire grew to about an acre before it was extinguished. Crews built a containment line to limit the size.

A downed power line created another hurdle for responders to the fire, Merritt said, adding that residents should always assume downed power lines are live and stay away.

Merritt said it’s possible that fire starts caused by the lightning can still flare up.