NESKOWIN, Ore. — Campers in Tillamook County are returning to the Neskowin Creek RV Resort, finding damage and making new plans after evacuating high waters during Friday's storm.
Deborah Fragozo said it was an anniversary trip gone wrong. She traveled down from Tri-Cities, Washington with her husband, and woke up to flooding around their trailer.
“It was halfway underwater. So, we tried to shove things in real quick. Our tailpipes were above the water and 15 minutes later they were underneath. Our car was gone. So we waded out in waist-high water," Fragozo said.
Campers said there was three feet of water filling the camp early Friday morning.
“I got up and looked out the window and the signs were floating past my rig, went to open my front door, but realized that the car next to us was already underwater so I didn’t open the door," Teresa Cometto said.
Tillamook County Emergency Management tells KATU News about 30 people evacuated, and 30 others stayed behind. Cometto and her husband hiked out on a tsunami trail that connected to a fire road.
“We were trying to get our vehicles, but it wasn’t going to happen, so we finally just waded out and came up to the clubhouse and stayed until after they had done some of the airlifts and that’s when we decided to walk out and come around this way," she said.
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Fragozo was airlifted out by the Coast Guard.
“The nice thing is that everyone was fine. Everyone was safe. People acted, they got things moving," she said.
Going into the weekend, families are now filing insurance claims and figuring out where to stay next or how to get home.
“I really don’t have a car anymore and we’ve got to figure out where we’re going to go because we’re six hours from where we live," Fragozo said.
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The campers said there were alarms, and staff at the site acted quickly. But Fragozo said the storm came on so fast, everyone was caught by surprise.
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