Tornado victim says trailer flipped 3 times
Last Updated: Thursday, June 24, 2010 | 8:21 PM ET
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A woman who was injured after her trailer was flipped at least three times when a tornado ripped through a Midland, Ont., trailer park says she thought it was going to be her "last day on earth."
"It's just devastating. You look at the trailer now and I look around and I thought 'Oh my god, how did I get out of here alive?'" Gloria Leduc, 57, told CBC News.
"It's not battered, it's like nothing left. It's just unreal. It's just beyond belief what the trailer looks like, so I don't know how I got out of there."
Gloria Leduc describes what happened when a tornado hit her mobile home. (CBC) The twister that hit the area knocked down power lines and tore through the 323-unit Smith's Camp trailer park, inflicting widespread damage but only minor injuries. About 50 residences were ruined, displacing 50 families.
Leduc said the storm came with no warning, other than rain, which started off lightly but then come down hard.
"I was watching the news about the earthquake and when it started, I thought I had dozed off and I was dreaming that this was happening at first, until everything started hitting me and I realized it was real."
Leduc said she went to close the window to keep the rain out when the wind picked up and took the awning off of the trailer. She then grabbed her dog and held him, she said.
"The trailer flipped right up in the air and over once, and I landed and I thought 'I'm OK, I'm OK. He's OK, that's all that matters,'" she said. "And then I went to try to move but it flipped over again two more times so I was just crashing and banging and flipping around all over the place, and things were hitting me."
Glass was everywhere and the television had fallen on her back, she said. Leduc, who was battered and bruised from the ordeal, said two men helped pry her out through a big hole in the wall of the trailer.
"I thought it was my last day on earth. It was pretty scary. I still can't believe I came out of it."
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