The shed is destroyed, the neighbors lost the top of their chimney.
Everything in our back yard got tossed around, and the plastic
snap-together playscape is in pieces, possibly some no longer in our yard.
The roof has new leaks (and there was a piece of shingle by the front
door, I'm sure some shingles are halfway to the next county, not that it's
all that *far* to the next county) and one window is broken.
We are all fine, unharmed, and likely to stay that way since I got all the
broken glass up in the area that the kids are allowed to be in. We spent
the worst of it in the storm shelter, felt the air pressure drop (there's
a vent to outside, to keep the pressure equalized on both sides of the
door), heard the wind, and then the air pressure normalized and the wind
subsided. It was freaky-scary there for awhile (and both the boys did, in
fact, freak), but we're fine.
I just need to let more people who live near us know that hey, if the
house is flattened, we're probably underneath, safe and sound but grumpy
and getting grumpier with every passing minute....
Julia
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