Stanley Park windstorm remembered by survivor

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Sterling Clark lived through the Stanley Park windstorm five years ago, even though he had pretty much given up on living. He was battling with depression and wasn’t planning on living through the night.

Clark doesn’t remember much about that night other than he was expecting to die while listening to the sound of branches crashing around him.

“It’s hard to stay warm in a wet, cold sleeping bag with a torn tarp over that and a torn tent on top. That was my concern.”

He didn’t do a very good job of staying warm; he still has permanent nerve damage in his feet, but he made it through the night. And then the next morning…

“I looked out the next day and the whole area was changed. All these old trees were knocked down. There was a branch on top of me that  was caught in a kind of a ‘V’ right above my head.”

He says when police found him his skin was grey and he was about two days away from dying.

He’s 64 now, seems to have his depression under control and he’s not suicidal anymore. Plus he has a warm place to live.

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