The above happened to the neighbor behind us - that used to be her hay shed/barn, now leaning up against her house. The below picture is random debris in another neighbor's yard - stuff like this was all over.
Well the tornado did go thru our neighborhood or near it anyway! Both Kevin and Jim were home (2 different neighbors) when it happened - watched it come in and said it sounded like frieght train! Furry Husband said he was really glad he wasn't home! I was at work watching http://www.weather.com/ and seeing the "red cell" over our address, listening to a live news cast online and hoping the animals were o.k. I can't even imagine how terrifying it would be to have been HOME with that thing barrelling down on your house! Nothing you can do with that coming...
Waverly is even in the newspapers as being in the path! Waverly is a blip on the screen and is NEVER in the papers.
We drove around last night and looked at the damage - man. NOTHING like what Windor saw but there were signs of something happening! Mostly people's haysheds and animal lean-to's are just completely demolished. The house across the street from us and then one house over...there was at least a 40' long garage/hay barn. It is just GONE. Gone.
The Irish Cob horse place down the road from us just had a big, new hay barn built...it is also a pile of sticks. A neighbor behind us had a big hay shed and it is just crumpled! A few neighbors that were home saw the barns and big metal/tin pieces and parts of barns/sheds flying around past their houses and then back to where they came from in a big circular motion in the sky -
At Kevin's place - across the street and 2 houses down, there is a 3 stall lean to - steel and wood - it is very substantial - and it was rolled 100-200 feet thru fences and it's laying in his arena upsidedown. Just rolled like it was nothing. He lives across from Barista and Pansy and says he is amazed their house is still there, thier hay barn was destroyed - blown to bits all over their pasture!
There are those big tin roof pieces people use for sheds all over the place - big 20' or longer rectangular pieces of tin everywhere... imagine those flying thru the air and the damage they could have caused! We have one right next to our driveway on the road in front of our house. There is one wrapped like a piece of paper around a metal t-post right in front of our house, across from our front door. Probably from Black's barn.
Both goat quonset huts (probably 150 - 200 lbs each) were rolled like dice and on top of each other and blown into a corner of the goat pen no where near where they normally set. And our gravel paths - you can see where the torrent of water ran...there was a bucket that was in a spot where it didn't get blown away (it was empty so that is amazing!) and it was still sitting there with probably 3 - 4 inches of water in it! Poor outside animals! Had to just deal with it... none of them had shelter cuz all the shelters open to the East or South since weather "never" comes from that direction...but yesterday those were the directions the weather was coming from!
Think that is why so many 3 sided sheds were destroyed...wind went in and could lift them up or wreck havoc! We feel REALLY lucky that nothing was damaged at our place! Not even our trees - Barista and Pansy had a big tree split down the middle - Kevin lost big trees, Andy across the street from us lost big trees and fencing when the trees came down.
Waverly is even in the newspapers as being in the path! Waverly is a blip on the screen and is NEVER in the papers.
We drove around last night and looked at the damage - man. NOTHING like what Windor saw but there were signs of something happening! Mostly people's haysheds and animal lean-to's are just completely demolished. The house across the street from us and then one house over...there was at least a 40' long garage/hay barn. It is just GONE. Gone.
The Irish Cob horse place down the road from us just had a big, new hay barn built...it is also a pile of sticks. A neighbor behind us had a big hay shed and it is just crumpled! A few neighbors that were home saw the barns and big metal/tin pieces and parts of barns/sheds flying around past their houses and then back to where they came from in a big circular motion in the sky -
At Kevin's place - across the street and 2 houses down, there is a 3 stall lean to - steel and wood - it is very substantial - and it was rolled 100-200 feet thru fences and it's laying in his arena upsidedown. Just rolled like it was nothing. He lives across from Barista and Pansy and says he is amazed their house is still there, thier hay barn was destroyed - blown to bits all over their pasture!
There are those big tin roof pieces people use for sheds all over the place - big 20' or longer rectangular pieces of tin everywhere... imagine those flying thru the air and the damage they could have caused! We have one right next to our driveway on the road in front of our house. There is one wrapped like a piece of paper around a metal t-post right in front of our house, across from our front door. Probably from Black's barn.
Both goat quonset huts (probably 150 - 200 lbs each) were rolled like dice and on top of each other and blown into a corner of the goat pen no where near where they normally set. And our gravel paths - you can see where the torrent of water ran...there was a bucket that was in a spot where it didn't get blown away (it was empty so that is amazing!) and it was still sitting there with probably 3 - 4 inches of water in it! Poor outside animals! Had to just deal with it... none of them had shelter cuz all the shelters open to the East or South since weather "never" comes from that direction...but yesterday those were the directions the weather was coming from!
Think that is why so many 3 sided sheds were destroyed...wind went in and could lift them up or wreck havoc! We feel REALLY lucky that nothing was damaged at our place! Not even our trees - Barista and Pansy had a big tree split down the middle - Kevin lost big trees, Andy across the street from us lost big trees and fencing when the trees came down.
We went up to Rex's and one of their lean-to barns was blown over ... they lost a piece from their barn roof that led into their tack room... I took home saddles that had gotten soaked and oiled them last night in the dark with my little headlamp on! Have to say those headlamps we got for Christmas have been the most useful gift we received in a LONG time! Rex had to leave today to go to a horse show in Castle Rock...her husband is home and can repair the roof - we are supposed to get heavy rain this afternoon too... I'll just keep the saddles she gave me for now...
Our power came back on around 9pm...
Everyone in our neighborhood is feeling really lucky! From what we can see and what we've heard from talking to neighbors and driving around to see what happened - no people or houses/livestock/horses/animals were seriously harmed. Just the sheds!
No comments:
Post a Comment