It’s a most startling way to wake up.
Sarah Beemish, her husband Jay and a three- year-old daughter were sleeping when a large tree limb came crashing through the roof and window of the master bedroom of their home.
“I was in my daughter’s room, I heard the crack and I got up and by the time – in between her room and the back room – the tree fell,” Beemish said while fielding phone calls as she stood outside her trailer in the Timbertown Trailer Park. “My husband was asleep in that room and by the time I got there, he was up and swearing.”
The cedar tree branch crashed through the bedroom and the bathroom, Beemish said.
“It’s pretty bad,” she said.
She was unsure if she had renter’s insurance.
“We’ll figure it out, we’re still processing,” she said on Tuesday morning, adding she called her mom first before contacting the insurance company and restoration company.
“This is a mommy moment.”
Several neighbours were coming out of their homes and looking at the scene Tuesday morning.
According to Squamish Weather’s Jason Ross, an Environment Canada weather watcher for the past 25 years, peak gusts of 63 km/h were recorded Tuesday morning at the Squamish Airport.
