Powerful storm downs trees, knocks out power in Central Sask. Jul 7, 2018 7:40 AM

People looking to escape the heat with a weekend away at the lake were woken up by trees falling and loud thunder in the Debden, Murray Point and Emma Lake areas.

As a storm system made its way through the area late Friday and early Saturday morning people described the damage left on Twitter.

“My camper is destroyed,” Terrin Bjarnason shared in a tweet around 4 a.m. Saturday. “Thankfully I was able to crawl out with only minor scratches and the kids and hubby were at the back of the trailer and didn’t get hit.”

In another tweet, posted around 1 a.m., Destiny McPeek described hearing emergency crews and roads being blocked by fallen trees.