Free Firewood for anyone who'll come get it!

At about 3:00 a.m. Friday morning Bill and I were awakened by a very loud sound. There was lightning, thunder, pouring rain and crazy wind. I wasn't sure if it was a tornado or just a bad storm. We looked out our window and could see that a bunch of limbs from our huge tree were laying on the ground. It wasn't until later that morning when we woke up and saw the real damage:

This was the view from our bedroom window. You can see the limbs sticking through our garage (on the left) and our neighbor's garage, plus the tree filling up our entire driveway.

The top of our neighbor's garage.


The view behing our garage, looking down where the alley should be.

Limbs hanging over utility wires.

Another view of our garage and driveway.

The limbs that harpooned our garage roof.

Notice the limb is sticking through the top and coming out the front of the garage.

Crunch!

Our new double skylight inside the garage (with the limb still sticking through)

Limb sticking through the top and front of the garage

The winds were measured at over 75 mph, which is equivalent to a category 1 hurricane. I think we're lucky the damage wasn't worse.

We spent most of the day yesterday cleaning up with the help of a few really good neighbors. I think it was a win/win situation - we got some of the mess cleaned up, they got free firewood. The tree removal company was here today and all the limbs/branches are gone. Our insurance estimator will be here Wednesday to assess the damage. So now it's just a waiting game to see how generous they will be with their coverage :) Let the games begin!