We survived the wind storm yesterday! There is destruction everywhere! I think we were probably one of the luckier ones. As our trees started to come down, we hooked them to a tow rope and pulled them down away from the house to prevent broken windows, that was our worst fear. We never really lost power, it just flickered all day. There are still some people without power and last estimate it could be 48 hrs before it is all completely restored. I have been brought to tears so many times yesterday and today. First because of the sheer destruction the 100+ mph winds we had made. It is just heartbreaking to see all of these enormous, beautiful trees down everywhere, and the damage to so many peoples property! And second because of the overwhelming help and generosity of others. Everyone helping everyone. It just amazes me how much destruction I saw yesterday driving through town, and how much clean up has been done already. I am so grateful to live in such a wonderful community and have so many wonderful neighbors!
OK now for some pictures. Our huge cherry tree sadly didn't survive the storm :( . Here is the video of it falling. You can hear my 2 year old begging the tree not to fall. We actually lost all the trees in our yard, the cherry tree in the back, a cluster of 4 trees near the property line, and two right in front of the house.
I took these 2 pictures through the window yesterday after the trees came down. They aren't very good, but you get the idea.
This is all that is left of my cherry tree. So sad!
Jacob and our cute neighbor Kate helping take the tree trunks to the pile of firewood in the back yard.
This is where the cluster of 4 trees was.
This is where the 2 trees were right in front of the house. There used to be 3 but one was lost before we moved in.
Ahhh FIREWOOD! One good thing about losing the trees.
The mass amount of branches that were hauled off this morning. The top picture is only about 1/8th of what was there. They came back for these after they emptied the truck and trailer from the bottom picture. O and our mailbox was found in the neighbors backyard to the west of us.
Our neighbors to the east of us (bottom picture) lost their garage door. They parked their car on it to prevent it from flying away.
Our fence was damaged a little when the trees came down, but again with our van we pulled the trees to the front yard so they wouldn't take out the whole fence.
All my boys helped haul the tree trunks to the back for firewood. Such good helpers they are!
Just a few of the many, many helping hands around the neighborhood helping everyone and anyone who needed it!
If you compare these 2 pictures you can see the loss of the 6 trees in front. The only trees still standing in our yard are the 2 on the property line.
It's going to take some getting used to. Seeing my house without trees in front. And I am really going to miss the cherry tree! At lest no one was hurt and we only had minimal property damage!
Maybe later I will get around to posting about Thanksgiving. We had an awesome Thanksgiving!
