Complex sentence: Then in 1938 came a hurricane that blew down 90 percent of the family's farmed trees, what they could salvage they sold and what was left was stored by the government in several locations.
Split into simpler sentences: Then in 1938, a hurricane came that blew down 90 percent of the family's farmed trees. What they could salvage they sold, and what was left was stored by the government in several locations.