50 RVs Hit by Trees in Storm at Camground in Washington – RVBusiness – Breaking RV Industry News
LAKE STEVENS, Wash. — Since surviving Tuesday’s severe windstorm, Karen Foley has been living in her car and with friends, according to reporting by Seattle-based NBC affiliate KING.
“It was horrible. I heard at least six trees fall around me,” she says. “By then, it was too late and too scary to leave.”
Now, all she wants to do is go home, but she can’t. “I still can’t get in,” she says. “I just stopped over there and asked if I can walk to my site and they said no.”
The Lake Connor Park RV Campground, where Karen and about 1,500 others live up to six months of the year, remains shut down.
Video taken by Brad Thompson, a member of the private park, shows just a fraction of the destruction.
“It looks like a war zone,” Thompson says, his camera capturing images of toppled trees and crushed campers.
At least 50 RV’s and campers were crushed by more than 200 trees — some of them 200 feet tall and 5 feet across.
Currently, no one is being allowed into the park.
