Residents of the Black Creek and Oyster River areas got a taste of an emergency evacuation during this week's storm.According to Comox Valley Emergency Program (CVEP) co-ordinator Mike Fournier, Macaulay and York Roads were closed due to downed trees and power lines, trapping area residents on Monday."Residents could not get back to their homes or leave the area," said Fournier. "So we used our emergency evacuation exit plan, in reverse, and allowed people to get back to their homes by the use of logging roads and a farmer’s field."Fournier added that about 50 residents used the alternate routes, and were assisted by Oyster River Fire Department and the Comox Valley Ground Search & Rescue.Môde Guy and her boyfriend James Headrick used one of the old logging roads to get out of their home near Macaulay Road. They got through fine as they drove a truck with four-wheel drive, but Guy said the roads were messy and not everyone fared as well as they did."We were able to go, but there was huge floods and mud pits, and people were getting stuck," explained Guy, adding that Headrick saw a number of two-wheel drive vehicles stuck when he transported a friend out on a different trip.Guy said the couple woke up Monday morning to no power or phone. They needed to get more gas for their generator — without power to their sump pump they would face a flooded basement.When Guy got to a section of Macaulay a few kilometres east of her home, she couldn't go any further."There were multiple power poles that had (come down) — one of them had actually snapped at the base — and then trees that had fallen on top of the power lines and then basically just knocked them to the ground," explained Guy, adding that this part of the road "had power lines on the ground for about 200 metres at least."According to Guy, the downed trees were cleared early Tuesday, and when she could drive along Macaulay Road she saw how bad the situation had been."There were tons of trees," she said. "There was a huge tree — like two-and-a-half foot diameter at least — that fell right by Bear Creek Park that took out a power line there, too."By 5 p.m. Tuesday their power was restored.However, about 150 residents of the Comox Valley still did not have power as of Thursday morning, according to Ted Olynyk, BC Hydro community relations manager. He expected power to be fully restored to the Comox Valley by 4 p.m. Thursday.BC Hydro crews came from as far as Chilliwack and Abbotsford to help with the restorations earlier this week. Another blast of stormy weather struck the Comox Valley on Wednesday, but Olynyk said outages were minimal."There was a few outages but we got those up pretty quick," he said. "With the amount of crews we had, those didn't last long."writer@comoxvalleyrecord.com