As a result of this storm and its powerful wind, 10-year-old Vancouver Island boy, Laken Platt, was lucky to be alive after he became trapped beneath a tree that fell onto his house!!  He is a junior gamer who, like all other kids his age is addicted to a screen while likely also wearing noise cancelling headphones, totally immersed in his game, no idea of his surroundings.

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