So, Sunday the 25th we were preparing to have my birthday dinner (since on the 24th we enjoyed a delicious barbecue at the church for Pioneer Day) when all of the sudden a storm was upon us. Rain, gale force winds, tornadoes maybe? We weren’t sure. But what we were sure of was the tremendous crash that hit our house. We rushed upstairs to check on the damage… and there was some. For example:
Just a little water coming into the office. Fortunately the computer was doing a great job of trying to block the water from pouring straight onto the floor.
Another limb skewered our hallway a bit, so we climbed up into the attic to see if we could remove the limbs and start plugging the holes to keep the rain from coming in.
It was a bit worse than we thought, but as we started pushing limbs out of the way, the rain stopped. The whole storm lasted for maybe 15 or 20 minutes.
So, we went outside to check out the aftermath.
Yup, that’s our car…
The limb crushed our car and knocked down our power lines. That was fine because the storm knocked out power to most of the region out here, so we didn’t really need those power lines anyways. Apparently, about 400,000 homes were without power from this storm.
The insurance adjuster today said that our car was the worst hit that he’d seen, so that means we WIN!
Anyhow, we had some limbs fall in the back yard also. Cracked a few windows, ripped up the gutters, etc.
And a little tree fell over into our neighbor’s back yard.
We had a bunch of people from church show up and help us get things cleaned up from the roof. All in all we had 10 punctures in the roof.
With everyone’s help we got things off the roof and the car pretty quickly
So yeah, that was a crazy storm. We’ve already contacted our insurance company and they’ve been great so far getting the ball rolling on the repairs. We’ve had lots of people offer to help and we’re getting things back together again. The restoration work is already moving.
The insurance company sent out emergency roof patching to patch over the holes in our roof. They sent out Flood Control to assess the water damage and they have started work on drying us out.
We have people coming to repair the roof which should be done by Friday. The inside will take a bit longer. We should know what we’ll get from the damage to our car in another day or so.
Anyhow, the important thing is that everyone is safe, that we’re doing as well as can be expected considering the circumstances. Hopefully, things will be back to normal as quickly as possible.
We’ll post more pictures of the process as they happen!
