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Finally, after being hit twice in three years by devastating tornadoes, the remaining mobile homes took it on the lam. They were stopped by a roadblock at the Chattahoochee bridge, but refused to return to the Happy Valley trailer park. "We're tired of being bait!" the spokestrailer shouted. They had to be carried back on trucks at great expense and inconvenience, and bolted in place, but were nothing but trouble after that. Doors wouldn't open, or shut, ACs and heaters came on and off unpredictably, and some rocked like ships at sea. "If it wasn't for the monster storm of '23," a survivor said, "I don't know what we would have done."

For years after, vicious splinters terrorized any who set foot in the former park.