A neighbor describes the horror of the storm that killed her friend | cover page
Misti Clark had just made a to-do list, left it on the counter and walked out of her kitchen when a massive storm-damaged oak tree fell in the Idlewood trailer park in Sandycreek Township there has a week Sunday, smashing through her and her neighbour’s trailers, killing her neighbour.
Clark said she went to the bathroom when she heard a “blood-curdling scream.”
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