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TWO NEAR TRAGEDEES in North Vancouver. Picture above shows damage caused
when‘a tree landed on the home of Gordon Standal, pictured below sitting on the bed
where his eight-year-old daughter was sleeping when the tree caused the ominous
crack that can be seen in the ceiling. In the picture on the right, Mrs. Bruce Stanwood

‘reflects on how close her family came to danger as she stands in front of the tree that

landed on their home at 1157 Wendel.

Photos by lan Smith

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Tuesday night's gales were
of the kind of ferocity not
often experienced on the
North Shore and_ several
residents who were left with
a mess of storm damage to
clear up are relieved that
that's the case.

The winds
hardest on the
of North Vancouver; with a
force that many residents
aren't likely to forget for
quite a while. And in the
case of at least two

households which came

close to disaster, the
memory is likely to stay for
life.

In one home, at 392
Weliington Avenue,
branches of a giant tree
more than a yard across the
butt came through. the roof

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as the wind howled and the
rain poured while the storm
was at its worst at about 2-
2:30 a.m.

The force of the tree
falling cracked the ceiling of
a bedroom, directly above
the bed where eight-year-old
Tracy Standal was sleeping.

Neighbors joined North
Vancouver District firemen
to help remove the tree from
where it landed on the
house, which took until 3:30
p.m. to complete.

It was the second near
tragedy of the night caused
by trees falling on homes.

At midnight a100-foot tree

crashed onto the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Stan-
wood, at 1157 Wendel,
showering broken window
glass into her living room.

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“It was like an explosion,”
exclaimed Mrs. Stanwood. |

-“Tve never heard anything
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like it.”

Her “immediate concern
was the safety of her child,
whose bedroom was right in
the path of the tree.

“I flew up the stairs to
check my son,” she said,
finding he had not been
harmed in the incident.

The tree fell from a
neighboring property and
was one of a number of trees
the property owners had
been in the process of
arranging to have cut down,
according to Mrs. Stan-
wood.

The Stanwoods’ aimost
new home now has many
cracks and leaks as a result
of the incident.

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