I eluded to this in my post yesterday, so I figured I would clarify what I was talking about in my post today, and not keep everyone in the dark. Our vacation was great, but while I was gone my house didn’t have quite as great of a vacation.

On Wednesday some nasty storms tore through the area, and were especially strong in my city. Our street, according to one of our local mail carriers, was the worst hit in town. As of this morning we still had barricades up at both ends of our street and there are tree limbs down everywhere. From what I understand it all looked much worse, and I’m glad a lot of clean up had been done by the time we arrived home.

We had cousins who were going to stay at our house while we were on vacation, but once the storm went through, and took out our power, they decided that staying there wasn’t the best option. The wife and I were glad they were there though so that they could check out the damage and inform us if we needed to cut our vacation short. Thankfully we didn’t and got to enjoy the entire vacation, but some houses on our block were not so lucky.

Our neighbors had their power box ripped right off the wall by a tree branch, and a bunch of the houses around us have damage from falling limbs. There are still a couple that have trees laying on them. The worst thing that happened to our house was just debris. There is leaf debris everywhere. I will be cleaning that up for awhile I’m sure. We also lost power for a few days, but that was fine since we weren’t home. We did lose some things that were in our freezer, but thankfully my venison was almost gone anyway. Our car, as well as our cousins, also received some hail damage. Apparently the hail was grape-sized at certain points and really did a number to our vehicle that was still at the house. Thankfully the house faired better and didn’t receive any noticeable damage.

I wish I could show pictures, but since I wasn’t home, I obviously don’t have any. Apparently the hail was inches deep at certain places in our neighborhood. My cousin sent a picture, via his phone, while we were away, and it looked like it had snowed. I even heard that people were having to shovel hail off of their porches and decks. Pretty amazing stuff.

So the only real damage from the storms, that we are suffering from at this point, is the car damage, and the fact that I don’t have an internet connection at home. These Wifi spots will do the trick until that comes back on. A minor inconvenience as compared to what happened to other people’s homes.

Hopefully we will be back online by the time you read this, and hopefully all of the thunderstorms in the near future steer clear. I promise some vacation related posts in the next few days.

Mother Nature can be one bad mother I tell ya!

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