It has been a busy week. Last Sunday night Jack and I came home from an art fair in Morris, Minnesota and a storm system followed us the entire forty miles. There was a scary looking angry black cloud to the west.
No sooner had we unloaded our vehicle when severe weather struck. Jack spotted the wall of disaster as it was surging across the lake and we headed for cover. One minute it was as calm as can be and the next minute the winds were hitting probably 50 or 60 miles per hour. It lasted less than an hour but raged across our side of Lake Mary with intense fury.
Here are some photos:
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| The neighbor directly south of us... |
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| The neighbor directly north of us... |
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| A totally uprooted tree a few houses down from ours. |
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| Attempting to remove the tree from our neighbor's garage roof. |
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| That tree on the right barely missed our propane tank. |
We totally lucked out...none of our trees landed on our house!! We did lose this tree down by our propane tank and parts of two others. We had enough damage to our roof that it will be replaced. And it rained so hard, yesterday, that we discovered mega leaks in the roof above our porch.
It could have been much worse. It could have struck as Jack and I were driving home hauling our cargo trailer loaded with all of our equipment. Nobody was injured and actually we will now have a lot more sun on our garden. It's one of the things that we've lamented....our vegetable garden has never had enough sun. Well......now it will!
The glass is half full.
I'm so sorry for all the storm damage to you and your neighbors, but I'm so glad it wasn't worse in terms of injury or loss of life. It sounds as if you were blessed indeed to have made it home and to shelter before it hit.
ReplyDeleteBlimey at least it was structural damage and nobody got hurt. Still as you say more sun for the veggie patch
ReplyDeleteMy goodness. How scary!
ReplyDeleteI'm always amazed that the wind can just uproot such large trees. Is this the proverbial silver lining? :)
ReplyDeleteGlad you were home safe and sound before it hit! And that there was a silver lining. You'll have a good veggie harvest now!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad no one was injured and the structural damage seems to be minor, but it's always sad to lose so many trees.
ReplyDeleteMary Anne in Kentucky
Man, that was a bad storm.
ReplyDeleteGlad you made it home safe.
Good grief! Must have been very, very windy.
ReplyDeleteHow scary!! Glad you were o.k. I can't believe wind could uproot such big trees!
ReplyDeleteYou have such a great attitude. You turn something surprising into surprisingly good. The pictures tell it all. Amazingly strong winds did the tree damages. I am just glad you are all right.
ReplyDeleteWow, what a powerful storm! This hot weather weather is stirring up quite a few storms across the country - ours thus far have been very minor compared to yours.
ReplyDeleteAt least you got some great pictures out of it!
Those look like the trees in our neighborhood last week - we lost one tree in our back yard, but it kinda fell into our woods, so I don't think we need to do anything with it right now.
ReplyDeleteYOu are right - glass is always half full - no one was hurt!
All is well that ends well. I've chosen new shingles and now have to find new carpet for the living room - yay!
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda, Deb, Elizabeth, Teresa, Baggie, Mary Anne, Ramona, Linda M, Wendy, TechnoBabe, ethelmae and Biz for your kind comments!
Oh Cheryl, I'm glad you and yours are safe. Sad damage to see those beautiful trees come down.. and especially those which did damage on the way. Last summer, while up at the cottage, we experienced one of these microbursts and watched as a tree came directly toward the cottage, landing on the deck, the top inch of the tree tip gently grazing the window. We too, were lucky. You have a good attitude about what you can't change.
ReplyDeleteHi Hilary! Thanks for stopping by. I believe you posted about that tree almost falling on the cottage, didn't you? Seems like I read about it. Thank goodness you were lucky, too. We must be living right, right? :-)
ReplyDeleteMy friends and family back there in the land of lakes couldn't wait for winter to end; it dragged on into May and then: wham! They said summer hit with a 100 degree vengeance, zipping right past spring. Nothing quite like extreme weather. I do miss seasons out here in the SF area. Don't you wish we could blend some of our Mediterranean clime with yours, just to knock off the edges and so I could enjoy the 4 seasons again?
ReplyDeleteOh my, that's a lot of damage, fortunately to limb, not life!
ReplyDeleteI just visited your gallery -- what fabulous photos!