RV park turned upside down in Dorian, but guitar and 'piece of paradise' survive
John Barker never expected to find his vacation trailer in pieces when he returned to Emerald Isle after Hurricane Dorian.
Posted — Updated“Prepped it for the hurricane, not a tornado,” he said.
An oceanside RV park was literally turned upside down when a reported tornado hit a few hours before the Dorian.
“We almost stayed,” he said. “Thank God we didn’t. We normally come and prep and stay and then leave within 24 hours, and we didn’t this time. If we had, we would’ve been right there.”
The twister picked up Barker’s trailer and tossed it across the street.
He had seen pictures of the other side of the park after the storm, but he couldn’t get a good view of his RV.
It was destroyed.
Ernestine and Van Etheridge drove from Raleigh to check on their RV.
Inside, it was just as they left it.
“It almost seems impossible that things like that can happen,” Ernestine Etheridge said. “One is still standing and one right behind it is flipped over and destroyed.”
When all seemed lost for Barker, he found a special guitar.
“It’s for my granddaughter, and it hung right outside that washer and dryer in the bedroom,” Barker said.
It was in perfect shape.
“It actually made it,” he said. “How about that? I just don’t believe that.”
All was not lost.
“All these trailers and nobody got hurt,” he said. “It really doesn’t get any better than that. These are just things and they can all be replaced.”
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