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Saturday 20 August 2011

Storm damage

Wow! Yesterday a small tornado ripped up the neighborhood one of our rental units is in. We got an email that a tree was down and blocking the drive, I envisioned a branch or two but it twisted a full grown Bradford pear to shreds. Trees are down or ripped up all over the area including the nearby park. We've got a big cleanup job this week, lotsa firewood. I'll probably use the biggest bits to frame up a raised bed for the tenants, try to encourage them to grow some food. Today we just managed to clear the driveway for the tenants, fortunately no-one's car was in the drive when it hit and there is no damage to the house.
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2 comments:

Emma said...

I'm glad there was no lasting damage and you can turn it into a firewood opportunity :)

21 August 2011 at 03:04
C Robb said...

Thanks, It could have been a lot worse. There were some pretty big trees down but I didn't see any damage to houses nor did I hear of injuries. I'll keep an eye out in the paper, we get a neighbors recycled ones, for reports on this storm. It was highly localized. We got a brief, 2 minutes maybe, bit of wind and some rain, no damage, and we are only 4 miles away from the rental property.

21 August 2011 at 06:27

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