BUCKEYE, Ariz. - A West Valley man who is blind is recovering, after a tree fell on top of him.

What we know:

The incident happened on Aug. 26, just before a big monsoon storm made its way across the area. A frightening video shows Brent Dentler trapped under a fallen tree.

Dentler takes a walk just about every day. The walk happens on the same path, and at about the same time.

"It’s almost like the tree waited for me," said Dentler. "I mean, how can the tree fall right at the time I come by?"

Brent said he was walking his normal route before the haboob swept through the area.

"And then I heard a bang," Dentler said. "And next thing you know, I was planted."

As Dentler is completely blind, he didn’t see what hit him, and couldn’t tell if he was badly injured.

"My neighbor started

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