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David In Indy:
Here's some pictures of the backyard from the aftermath of the storm yesterday. I really had to fight with Photobucket because I kept getting upload errors for some reason. :-\
These "branches" - I call them branches, but they are really halves of trees- are roughly 40 feet long and about 10 feet high. I watched them fall to the ground and they made a hell of a noise. I think they were struck by lightening but it could have been from high winds.
Here's some close up pictures...
This branch landed on the family room roof and it made a very loud crashing sound. All four of Cody's feet flew out to the sides and he hit the ground when it happened. I'm not sure but I think we may have sustained a bit of roof damage. I was going to pull it off today but it was raining all day long so I couldn't go up there and do it.
One of the big branches in the yard came from this tree...
The entire top half of this tree is gone. It wasn't a very big tree and I'm not sure where the section that broke off landed.
An insurance adjuster is due out here tomorrow. And I've hired a company to come over and cut the trees up and haul them away. It's a real big mess back there. :P
Kelda:
oooh! I cant see these at work, but will look at these from hom when I'm back there on Saturday after my trip to Yorkshire from tonight.
min:
OMG David, that was some storm!! Glad that you and your Dad and Cody are okay. You must have some big old trees in your back yard...sad to lose them. Was there much damage to your house? Hope the insurance will cover it all. But the main thing is you're ok... :)
CellarDweller:
Wow.
David, those are some pics! Glad you are OK!
optom3:
Wow !!
that was some storm you had up there. I would have been joining Cody flat on the floor, and wondering if it was safe to swallow another happy pill, along with a keg of beer !!Well truth be told it probably would have been the vat of beer that had me flat on the floor !! The summer lightning storms here have pretty much the same effect. Emma and I sit with all the curtains closed playing cards.
I hope you find the damage is minimal and the insurance don't find some small print to worm their way out of paying !!! I have just discovered that due to some changes in the IRS here, my BRITISH pension cannot be transferred in the way I was hoping. One can and the other two can't, then to add bloody insult to injury, the one which can transfer, may well be taxable.
YOU WHAT !!!!!! I paid taxes on it in England, why the beep, beep would I pay taxed for bringing it over here.
So you will not make me a citizen, I can't vote, I quite rightly pay taxes on earned income here, but you then want a cut of my British pension. There are not enough drugs in the world to calm me down at the moment.
In fact if some low form of amoebic life, ie insurance man, tries to argue out of paying, send him in my direction. I will let out a torrent of abuse hitherto unheard of,and what's more I will do it in English, French and Japanese, oh not forgetting Indian, Urdu dialect!!!!!
Me mad, nah, calm as a millpond on a windless day. ;D
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