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puppetmakerWe had 60+ winds last night. You could feel the house move. The wind was howling like a Banshee and the rain pounded the house. We heard sounds of trees cracking but none of them were ours that we could see.
This morning there are crews out clearing a couple of large trees that had fallen in the street about a block down from us. In the backyard we have two trees down. One was totally on our property and the other I am going to have to check the boundary marker to figure out which property it is one since we don’t have a fence between us. With the neighbor we do have a fence with, a couple of sections of the fence fell onto our property so we are going to have to give him a call and see what he wants to do about it. It did miss the garage so that’s good.
We have roofing tiles in the yard but they aren’t ours. We have a rather distinctive color and pattern to ours. Nor are they the neighbors on either side so I am going to take a look and see if I can figure out which house they came from. My look at the roof on both the garage and the house seems to indicate that we are still intact but I have to give it a better look later.
The ground is very soggy and we are going to have to watch the trees if we get another stiff breeze through here before the ground stops feeling like you are walking on a sponge. Over all the usual flooding areas look OK and it seems all that we lost were two garbage cans which will probably wander back to us since I have already returned the garbage cans that were in our yard to the houses a couple of houses down. We just do that around here. If you know whose cans they are, you just put them back.
We do have a lot of sticks and branches in the yard. That is going to take some time to pick up but I think I’ll wait until it is a little drier to work on that.
Peter is off taking Ariel back to school. Caroline and I are going to find ways to amuse ourselves in the house today since outside is so yucky. We are down a phone line. The office line is out and the home line is pretty broken up with static. We are given them 24 hours to repair the problem because there are so many lines down around the place. I am surprised we have power right now.
So we are fine and I really hope everyone else is too. This was a pretty vicious storm. At least it happened this weekend and not the next.
I am grateful that our damage seems minimal.
This morning there are crews out clearing a couple of large trees that had fallen in the street about a block down from us. In the backyard we have two trees down. One was totally on our property and the other I am going to have to check the boundary marker to figure out which property it is one since we don’t have a fence between us. With the neighbor we do have a fence with, a couple of sections of the fence fell onto our property so we are going to have to give him a call and see what he wants to do about it. It did miss the garage so that’s good.
We have roofing tiles in the yard but they aren’t ours. We have a rather distinctive color and pattern to ours. Nor are they the neighbors on either side so I am going to take a look and see if I can figure out which house they came from. My look at the roof on both the garage and the house seems to indicate that we are still intact but I have to give it a better look later.
The ground is very soggy and we are going to have to watch the trees if we get another stiff breeze through here before the ground stops feeling like you are walking on a sponge. Over all the usual flooding areas look OK and it seems all that we lost were two garbage cans which will probably wander back to us since I have already returned the garbage cans that were in our yard to the houses a couple of houses down. We just do that around here. If you know whose cans they are, you just put them back.
We do have a lot of sticks and branches in the yard. That is going to take some time to pick up but I think I’ll wait until it is a little drier to work on that.
Peter is off taking Ariel back to school. Caroline and I are going to find ways to amuse ourselves in the house today since outside is so yucky. We are down a phone line. The office line is out and the home line is pretty broken up with static. We are given them 24 hours to repair the problem because there are so many lines down around the place. I am surprised we have power right now.
So we are fine and I really hope everyone else is too. This was a pretty vicious storm. At least it happened this weekend and not the next.
I am grateful that our damage seems minimal.
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Date: 2010-03-14 05:36 pm (UTC)All in all, it could have been a lot worse.
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Date: 2010-03-14 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-15 09:00 pm (UTC)