Close call
Published 12:32 pm Saturday, January 5, 2008
- BLUE CRUSH: Garron Lamoreau takes a closer look at what used to be his brother Kyson's reliable mode of transportation parked in front of the Lamoreau home along Fruitdale Lane. Heading out the door for work, Kyson Lamoreau and a friend were literally only moments away from being in the car when they stopped and watched the huge tree crush the car in half after falling in the strong winds Friday morning. - The Observer/CHRIS BAXTER
Trees fell throughout the Grande Ronde Valley under the force of Friday’s windstorm.
Trending
But the falling trees apparently caused no serious injuries. Still, there there was one close call.
One very close call.
Kyson Lamoreau was preparing to drive to work
Trending
from Fruitdale Lane with his friend John Manley when a tree about 4
feet in diameter crashed into Lamoreau’s 1996 Toyota RAV4. Fortunately,
Lamoreau and Manley had not gotten into the car. But they were within
10 seconds of doing so.
Had they been inside, the consequences would have been tragic.
“It (the tree) smashed the passenger side like a pancake,” said Kyson’s father, John Lamoreau.
Anyone sitting in the driver’s side also would have been seriously injured by the tree’s large branches, John Lamoreau said.
The tree fell over at about 9:55 a.m. at John Lamoreau’s home.
Kyson’s mom, Nena Jones, told him that if he was a cat with nine lives,
he definitely would have used one of them Friday, John Lamoreau said.
Marketplace
-
eEdition
-
-
