post-storm
Jun. 8th, 2008 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whitereflectionWow, I guess damage from last night's storm is more extensive than I thought. Was a lot more widespread power outage than I'd realized (we just had a flicker), and some substantial commercial/residential damage in places, like that Walmart/Target complex. I guess there was one massive motorhome someone had had parked in the lot there that got picked up and slammed down in the worst of it. Several homes in areas south/southwest of us by a couple miles had roofs torn off.
Picked up a lot of minor branches in the yard, and Mom and I helped the usual him as he cleared out our gutters of what can only be described as compost (yay for a spring's worth of maple seed helicopters). We did sustain damage to our backyard maple tree, though, and will be having tree-trimmers out to repair it this week. It's a nasty twisting-ripping wound, and we've got two 25-30ft branches on our roof, between the solar panels and the pipe where the power lines enter the house. At least the roof/shingles and panels seem to be okay. Could be worse--Mom saw a house several blocks away where a tree had fallen over onto the building itself. Lot of damaged/leaning trees and snapped-off at the base trees all over the Millard and further south/southwest areas. Both of ours seem still stable and standing.
Major headache last night during the storm, woke up with it returned. Hopefully the caffeine helps, also will be nice if the weather system continues to move on.
Picked up a lot of minor branches in the yard, and Mom and I helped the usual him as he cleared out our gutters of what can only be described as compost (yay for a spring's worth of maple seed helicopters). We did sustain damage to our backyard maple tree, though, and will be having tree-trimmers out to repair it this week. It's a nasty twisting-ripping wound, and we've got two 25-30ft branches on our roof, between the solar panels and the pipe where the power lines enter the house. At least the roof/shingles and panels seem to be okay. Could be worse--Mom saw a house several blocks away where a tree had fallen over onto the building itself. Lot of damaged/leaning trees and snapped-off at the base trees all over the Millard and further south/southwest areas. Both of ours seem still stable and standing.
Major headache last night during the storm, woke up with it returned. Hopefully the caffeine helps, also will be nice if the weather system continues to move on.
