It’s been exactly 1 month since a huge tree in our backyard decided it had had enough and just dropped right on our house. Right on the anniversary of us moving into here. 22 years ago.
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| A really large tree |
The neighbors came rushing over. The noise was pretty loud and shook the whole house. Sharen came down after I texted her a picture. It was about 6:40 in the morning and Mike and I were both up reading the paper. Good thing too because a branch found its way into the bedroom made a hole and damaged a good portion of the drywall.
There was rain in the forecast, but thank god we got “our tree guy”. He came right over spent about 3.5 hours clearing the tree.
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| It was already down so no bucket truck |
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| Lost in the huge hole |
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| Removed everything |
It was such a relief to see that we didn’t have enough damage that we had to leave. Just a huge hole in the roof with some structural damage. Tree missed the neighbors house and our air conditioner unit. We got lucky.
Mike called Dylan and Logan and they came a running. Logan left work (at Menards) with everything we needed to cover the whole side of the roof that was damaged. Bryan showed up to lend a hand and to make sure we were ok. We are so so lucky to have such a strong caring family.
Dylan and Logan got the hole covered in wood - didn’t want the tarp to collect water - and it started to sprinkle. Oh.oh. Then came the lightning. They threw the tarp down and got the hell off the roof. The skies opened up.
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| Got it covered just in time |
It poured, but just for a 1/2 hour or so.
Then the 3 younger guys got up on the now slippery roof to spread the tarp and secured it down. We didn’t get a drop of water in the house.
All covered just in time. It rained for the next 2 days.
Now we are working with a contractor whose is working with our insurance company to try and get it fixed. Mike and I have never had to deal with anything like this before. We really have no idea what is involved -but we are learning. We got a partial payout from our insurance so the tree guy got paid. We still need to find a handyman to replace the drywall in the bedroom. But we will get it all done I’m sure of that.
I told IR Tree removal that I would be calling him come fall to have a few more trees looked at.
This is scary stuff. A TREE FELL ON OUR HOUSE!
