Drone video captured the massive path of destruction in Hyda Hills. Wicked storms pummeled the neighborhood, nearly leveling Despines’ home.
“It’s devastating because it’s your whole life, it’s everything you have, it’s all the things that make you comfortable, make you want to come home from work at night,” Despines said.
Despines, her daughter, and her 1-year-old grandson were grocery shopping when the storm rolled through. They had debated whether or not to leave the baby home with Susan’s husband.
“If we’d have left him, they’d have been in the living room, and that’s where the roof is right now,” she said.
Her husband was in the shower when the storm hit.
“[He] laid down in the shower, grabbed his ankles and just prayed he was going to make it through,” she said.
Wind whipped through the Bellevue neighborhood, collapsing houses, snapping trees, even overturning moving trucks. Richard Bryant watched the storm came through.
“[It] sounded like a freight train. We could hear the wind blowing around the house. The sliding glass door was shaking, vibrating. We thought it was going to blow in and we were standing in the hallway when the glass from the office blew into the house. That’s the last thing we heard before we ran to the basement,” Bryant said.
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Source: Storm levels homes in Bellevue
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