LAKE STEVENS, Wash. — Since surviving Tuesday's severe windstorm, Karen Foley has been living in her car and with friends.
"It was horrible. I heard at least six trees fall around me," she says. "By then, it was too late and too scary to leave."
Now, all she wants to do is go home, but she can't.
"I still can't get in," she says. "I just stopped over there and asked if I can walk to my site and they said no."
The Lake Connor Park RV Campground, where Karen and about 1,500 others live up to six months of the year, remains shut down.
Video taken by Brad Thompson, a member of the private park, shows just a fraction of the destruction.
"It looks like a war zone," Thompson says, his camera capturing images of toppled trees and crushed campers.
At least 50 RV's and campers were crushed by more than 200 trees -- some of them 200 feet tall and 5 feet across.
Currently, no one is being allowed into the park.
The situation frustrates some who say they're not getting enough information from management.
"We're just controlling the things we can control," says park manager Lynn Andrews.
Managers tell KING 5 it's a simple matter of safety because live wires are still down and trees remain unsteady.
"It is very dangerous right now," says Andrews. "That's why we're not letting people go in."
Some members of the park say diseased trees should have been cut down to avoid such devastation.
However, a park forestry team member says 120 trees have been felled in the 360-acre park since April.
"We have probably another 100 tagged, but we got to the ones we were most concerned about," says Mike Marconi. "In a storm like this, though, you don't know what's gonna come down."
Only about 75% of the park has been surveyed for damage, meaning more campers are likely destroyed.
For now, as the long wait continues, only people with emergencies—like Karen, who ultimately retrieved her medications—are being escorted in and out.
"I'm just hoping we don't have to stay in the car for long," says Karen.
No one was hurt at the park during the storm.
Park managers say it will likely be at least Sunday before people can return to assess the damage.