The storm brought down more than 30 trees on the Keeney property.
BELLEVUE, Wash. — For Robert Keeney, 76, the devastation left by last month’s bomb cyclone isn’t just about downed trees and the clean-up process. It’s about his family’s history.
“It’s not a lot of people in Bellevue who’ve been on the same real estate for 100 years,” Keeney, whose grandparents purchased the land in 1925, said. “I’ve been here since I was ten months old. My family donated land to the city for Keeney Park across the street.”
Keeney grew up on the sprawling property surrounded by towering trees.
“There’s
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