Saturday, March 3, 2012

AT TRAILER PARK, LIVES LEFT IN TATTERS.(MAIN)

Byline: ALLEN G. BREED Associated Press

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. -- When Cindy Vallier returned home Saturday after Hurricane Charley, the bodies of the old couple across the road were lying in her front yard, covered in blankets.

Staring at the old man's black wheelchair and twisted walker wedged under her husband's truck, Vallier wonders how she can bear to move back to Crystal Lake mobile home park.

``Every time I walk down here, there's two dead people in my driveway,'' she said, envisioning the memory that will haunt her. She surveyed the twisted wreckage engulfing her home. It's what is left of her dead neighbors' double-wide trailer.

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