(CNN) Sarah Radney saw trees falling down all around her grandparents' home when Hurricane Michael roared over Georgia. She was safe until a carport came crashing through the roof.

Michael's strong winds lifted a metal carport into the air before it crashed into a Seminole County, Georgia, house and hit the girl's head, emergency officials said.

She had been in the living room sending her family photos of the trees that had fallen, her father, Roy Radney, recalled.

"It was just a freak accident, I never heard of anything like that," he said.

Sarah's grandmother, who was also in the living room, suffered a broken rib and punctured lung, but she survived. The family had to wait over eight hours for paramedics to arrive due to the terrible road conditions, Radney said.

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