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• Thursday, April 10, 2008 - Storm Damage

We had a BAD, no make that a BAD storm last night!   Pictures to follow as soon as they load.  God is Good we are all safe!   I am also thankful my DIL is not here.  She doesn't do storms well, and this was a strange storm.

The wind blew 50 mph or gusted that high for HOURS before it hit.  When it hit I have no idea how high the wind was.  NWS said up to 70 mph.   I believe it.  When it hit we had windows open.  We have a 10 ft porch on the south side of the house.  My son was setting in a chair 12 foot from the windows.  He was getting wet.  In just a few minutes the wind was blowing from the North, so I had to shut those windows too.  It didn't last long.  The NWS said this line of storms was moving at 53 MPH.  That is a fast moving storm.

OK I will give the tour as I discovered things.  

First thing we noticed was

When we went to bed this was full.  On investigating we discovered this.

This was the pool pump house.  The pump was running and when lines snapped it worked on draining the pool. 

Notice this limb broke off.

 

Heading the other direction this greeted us.

This was a neat weighted down stack of 30 ft sheets of tin.  About then I noticed this in the middle of the field.

What you ask is it?  That was my first thought.  I soon figured it out.

It is hard to tell from here, but there is a section of about 15 ft of roof gone from my son and DIL's house.   Now we now the roof was insulated! 

Walking back from the kids house I took these pictures of the same tin as earlier.  Just the red side.

So for this is all the damage I found to our house.

We are blessed!  We are safe and unhurt!  Every think is fixable!  

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Just want to share the joys and tears of living in the country with others that understand them both. I am mom to 5 children. Two biological and three adopted. We are praying for one more adopted soon. We live 40 miles from town on 117 acres. My days are full of homeschooling children and dealing with livestock. Life is never dull or boring or "normal" what ever normal is. I ramble on here often, some times more than once a day as this is my main form of socialization with adults during the day. Hope to make some new friends here.

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