Storm pics

These are pics up the street from my house. Unfortunately (or rather fortunately) we didn't get pics of the downed meter and power lines at my house before they fixed it so I can't show my personal damage such as it was. The house on the left belongs to a friend of my grandmother's. She had a huge limb fall and puncture the roof. You can see the blue tarp covering the hole. On the right is the trailer that had the big cedar tree in the yard that snapped. Part of it is in the road still. It fell away from the trailer or it would have flattened that end. I still have part of their trailer skirting in my yard.





These are the two houses that I think sustained the most damage. These are all in close proximity to my house. Scary. It looks like someone just stomped her porch flat. The white house that had the porch flattened is just up the street from my place and the other is across the railroad tracks. The bottom one by far the worst. She had a GIANT tree fall over on her house and had major damage.



This is our poor little community gazebo-thing. It is no more. There used to be a bulletin board between those posts where people could post local events.





Another close call. That would have been devastating if that had fallen just a few feet the other direction.



Fortunately, there aren't any houses near this one.



These pieces of metal USED to be a shed that housed a man's riding lawnmower. His shed blew into a dozen pieces all over town but his lawnmower was still standing.



Patched shingles, hanging light fixtures...



Fortunately, no one was living in this trailer and hadn't been for some time.

All in all, everyone is pretty lucky. There were other trees down (including next door to my house) but nearly all of them missed the houses with a couple of exceptions. It could have been far worse than it was so we all feel pretty lucky (at least the ones that sustained light damage). My parents lost several huge trees in their back yard and it blew up some shingles but no real damage to their house. The right side of my car (the side that was against the wind) looked like someone had shot it with a grass and mud bazooka. It was gross. Seeing everything that went on around town tho, I guess I'm lucky it didn't blow my car cover (one of those aluminum ones that you just park under) away.