‘I Thought I Was Done': Residents Of Trevose Mobile Home Park Pick Up The Pieces After EF-3 Tornado

By Alicia Roberts, CBS Philadelphia

July 31, 2021

A dozen trees snapped like toothpicks all around Penn Valley Mobile Home Park after a tornado ripped through Thursday evening. The EF-3 tornado destroyed a nearby car dealership and caused devastation in the area.

The damage making a fact very clear: the residents here are very lucky no one was seriously hurt.

“I started praying to God,” Sonal Patel tells CBS3. “I thought I was done.”

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