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| Wire grad sign stand - 1, me 0. My one storm injury. Lucky, all things considered. |
TAKING FLIGHT: Tank's grad sign was a casualty of the storm. It was perched on a little wire stand at the side of the house (that faces the street/Mary Ann's house). The sign part was gone, but the wire stand was still there. I knew it was there, but still managed to trip over it while hauling broken branches to the curb.
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| Well, this is a stupid message to share since I basically crossed everything out. |
DING DONG: Mondays (day after the tornado) are one of Coach's long days. He was home Wednesday evening when someone knocked at the front door. I was making dinner.
Me: IF YOU'RE HERE ABOUT OUR SIDING OR OUR ROOF, PLEASE GO AWAY.
Voice: OK, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU.
Coach just stood in the middle of the kitchen, eyebrows raised, mouth open.
Me: YEP - THEY'VE BEEN KNOCKING ON OUR DOOR NONSTOP. LEAVING FLYERS ON THE PORCH. I'M NOT ANSWERING THE DOOR ANYMORE.
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| Raining buckets. |
As a side note, Tank now calls her 'the pit monster'. Totally justified.
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| Hardly flattering, but there you go. Good posture wasn't my first thought. |
They came home soaked yesterday, and so did I.
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| The green arrow is pointing out one of 3 baskets of Mini's laundry. Moving it to the hall does not mean it doesn't exist. The fallen trophies wouldn't have even been noticed prior to the clean up. No joke. A few of them had the ornament pieces at the top snap off. |
For some reason, Lad likes to leave clothes and towels out there after he works out. He has other habits I dislike more, so I let it slide. His partial wardrobe mixed with leaves and sticks contributed to our 'we've-been-hit-hard' tornado vibe.
Anyway, Mini was in the kitchen and I asked her why the trophies were all over the floor (Curly was sleeping over at a friend's house).
Mini: Oh yeah, weird. The shelf ripped out of the wall in the middle of the night and the trophies started falling off of it. One even flew over and hit my bed.
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| Check out the arrow pointing to the lady trophy topper, she's got the weight of the world on her bent little torch. The other arrow is showing how the other trophies were close to the edge. |
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| That's the anchor pulling away. |
I can't help but wonder if the dust on those trophies just got too heavy.
18 comments:
What an experience and I'm glad you're ok. I remember when we had hurricane force winds here. Like you we were almost immediately inundated with roofers who were just here to 'help.' They came out of nowhere and all looked to be as unreliable as the trees that had fallen on houses.
YIKES. So glad everyone is okay and the damage was minimal!
Scary that the shaking was bad enough to loosen the shelf, but I'd totally stick with the story about the dust getting to heavy! So sorry about all the trees but just glad you and your family are all ok.
Pit monster - hee hee. Eve is almost pathologically organized and neat. Angus, not so much. Nice of the woman to return the sign - one of my friends' outdoor chair cushion blew away in a wind storm once and she put up a sign with a picture that said "answers to Squishy". Hope your damage isn't too bad - last time a tornado touched down here we lost power for over 48 hours, but there was no damage to our house at least.
Ally- Makes me realize how lucky we were all the other times we have been warned and ended up with no damage. There were warnings all over the news to be wary of scammers. Really? People have to worry about scammers during a difficult time? Irritating.
Suzanne- Yes. Could've been so much worse.
Martha- If saying that the dust accumulation caused the shelf to come down spurred the girls on to dust regularly, I would use that to my advantage. Ha.
Ali- I LOVE 'answers to squishy', so funny. Oh, losing power is so annoying and inconvenient. We've been lucky to never lose power for more than ashort time. I'm the trained monkey tyoe that would STILL flip the light switch every time I walked into a room while power was out. We were really lucky.
Ally- AND MEANT TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT I JUST HAD AN 'INCIDENT' AFTER WHICH I TURNED TO CURLY AND TOLD HER I WAS QUOTING YOU . . . SOME BLOG POSTS JUST WRITE THEMSELVES. I haven't written it yet. Most frustrating. But also laughable.
That is an amazing lot of trophies. Must be frightening, the worst we get over here in Malaysia are thunder storms and strong wings. Trees down and floods but nothing more frightening. Following your blog to see how life goes in another part of world. Can't imagine the sign blew away into another's house.
Ernie, can't wait, but I will, to read about what happened that wrote itself.
Ugh, I can't stand the storm chaser people. BUT, I have to say, we got a new roof paid for by insurance because of a hailstorm a few years ago. So look into that for your siding. You might want to lump that into the "tornado" that was suspiciously close to your neighborhood. Wink wink.
Ally- one of those perfect storm situations. With layers to boot.
Kestrel- Thanks for visiting from Malaysia. Wow. Floods and strong winds can be frightening too. That sign r
Must've been sucked into the tornado and spit out almost a mile away.
My daughters do have quite a collection of trophies from Irish dancing. We can't imagine what else would have caused the shelf to suddenly pull away from the wall.
Wow! That is a LOT of rain. Glad your sign got returned!
Nicole- When it started drizzling just after I started running, I kept going . . . thinking this is no big deal. It feels refreshing. Yikes, did things go from refreshing to soaking and irritating quickly.
Goodness. Your house was shaking, rattling, and rolling. So funny about the grad sign; what a nice person to bring it back instead of just tossing it. But I (and you) would have done the same thing. Nature can be pretty scary and I'm so happy that you guys fared pretty well.
My bestie Kelly was just here with us and she was telling me that her Aunt and Uncles home was flattened and they both sustained some (nonlife-threatening) injuries; they're in Michigan and it happened at the same time as yours. Not sure if they are 'tornado related' though as I'm mostly geography insufficient.
The trophies. I remember when the girls were done with sports and I had ALLLLLL these trophies just piling up. It took me some time, but I found a place to donate them where they'll reuse them or most of the part of them so I didn't have to put them in the landfill.
Suz- yes, how 'bout that sign-in-yard lady? Tank has a fairly uncommon name, she could've just posted it on FB and peeps would know it was us but she went thru all the seniors in the yearbook till she found his last name. Then she posted it on FB. Very kind.
So sad about Kelly's aunt and uncle. How awful. If our house was flattened I think we would've really sustained some serious injuries since we were all sleeping on the 2nd floor. Yes- Mother Nature can be unpredictable. I cant believe how lucky we were.
Michigan is not far. A few hours drive. Other side of skinny part of Indiana. Lots of people here have lake houses there. Coulda been the same system, I guess? I auditioned to be a weather woman once for NBC. That's a story I should share. I would've been terrible because I am not a star student of geography.
BTW Coach told me last week that his company is opening clinics in GA and they need people to run them. Not gonna do it, but how fun would that be? Dare to dream.
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