Well, I guess atleast I have my health...
I rode the storm out at my parents' home when it blew through here the other night. Went the next day, Sunday?, to check on my house. I only live a couple of miles from my folks. Anyway I arrived to find a huge oak tree in my front yard laying completely across the road and on the power lines in the neighbors' yard across from me.
Thought maybe some big limbs had dropped from the wind. Boy was I surprised. Actually I still think I am in mild shock today. There are three, count that 3, grand water oaks currently laying on top of one end of my house. The wind blew 3 oaks that had to be atleast 100-150 years old down like dominoes and the all came crashing down right on the end of my house where the master bathroom is located. On their brief but eventful journey towards the house they pushed over a very young, maybe 50 years old, grand oak and snapped a HUGE cypress tree like a twig. Thank god/goddess that those last two trees fell more beside the house, or it would've been completely laid waste to. I'll post photos some time in the near future when I can stand to actually look at them again.
The ceiling inside that end of my house is about a foot lower than it should be and you can see where the ceiling beams are just crushed and pushed in. I now have a small skylight in the master bedroom, gee I always wanted one, thanks to a spear shaped limb about 6 inches across being driven into the roof. The gas vent in the bathroom was torn out by falling limbs and I now have water cascading down inside the walls of the bathroom. There is a huge hole in the outer roof over the vanity sinks from a hunk of wood that has to be every bit of a half ton or better just lounging up on top. Thankfully you can't see the outside up through there, but you can see where the ceiling panels have split and all the nice rainwater was running inside.
My brother and I spent all day from about 8am to 6pm cutting limbs and debris away from the house. We made a good dent in it, but we are'nt close to being finished yet. And I suspect that there'll be more damage to come as we try to get the heavier sections fo trees off the house. Oh joy and rapture! We'll be back at it again on Tuesday till he has to go teach at HCC and I have to go in to work at 2:30pm. Must seal holes in roof before then...
Ain't life grand?
My beloved wife up and left me with no hint or warning. I am serious about the beloved part. I truly and deeply love my wife. I miss her so very much that I feel it physically all the time and I wish she was here with me now. I think about her constantly. I ache for her...long for her. I would like to think that she feels the same and thinks about me and what's been going on, but I am pretty sure that the friends she is staying with try to keep her occupied as much as possible to lessen the chances of that happening. Can you tell that the "friend" and I don't agree on too many things? Melissa has decided that her friend is more important than our marriage. I don't know if I should say it like she just came to that decision though. It's probably always been kind of that way with this one crazy friend. I'd stop speaking to friends of mine for talking about my wife to me the way her friend has been spitting out poison about me to her. I dare say that I'd come to blows over a few of the statements that have been made if they were made about her to me. That's what happens when you love someone. You just love them...that's all there is to it. I am still utterly confused and fucked up over that one. She has hurt me more deeply and wickedly than anyone else could have. I am sure that bit of knowledge would bring joy to her friend's heart and maybe even hers now that she's been up there with her for a couple fo weeks. I'd like to think not, but I am not sure what to think about that right now...I just know that I miss her and it hurts my heart to know that she could be here with me if she wanted to, but she's not. I guess the hardest part is just being plain old lonely.
And now I am living in my parents' spare room till FEMA can come out and figure something out. From the phone call with them this evening it may be close to three weeks or longer before I can expect to see any help from them. Eh well, we'll see.
And how did you guys do? I hope much better than me. Of course it would be a little hard for your month to suck worse than mine I think, although it certainly is possible. Maybe I'll win the lottery and change some things. You never know I suppose.
I rode the storm out at my parents' home when it blew through here the other night. Went the next day, Sunday?, to check on my house. I only live a couple of miles from my folks. Anyway I arrived to find a huge oak tree in my front yard laying completely across the road and on the power lines in the neighbors' yard across from me.
Thought maybe some big limbs had dropped from the wind. Boy was I surprised. Actually I still think I am in mild shock today. There are three, count that 3, grand water oaks currently laying on top of one end of my house. The wind blew 3 oaks that had to be atleast 100-150 years old down like dominoes and the all came crashing down right on the end of my house where the master bathroom is located. On their brief but eventful journey towards the house they pushed over a very young, maybe 50 years old, grand oak and snapped a HUGE cypress tree like a twig. Thank god/goddess that those last two trees fell more beside the house, or it would've been completely laid waste to. I'll post photos some time in the near future when I can stand to actually look at them again.
The ceiling inside that end of my house is about a foot lower than it should be and you can see where the ceiling beams are just crushed and pushed in. I now have a small skylight in the master bedroom, gee I always wanted one, thanks to a spear shaped limb about 6 inches across being driven into the roof. The gas vent in the bathroom was torn out by falling limbs and I now have water cascading down inside the walls of the bathroom. There is a huge hole in the outer roof over the vanity sinks from a hunk of wood that has to be every bit of a half ton or better just lounging up on top. Thankfully you can't see the outside up through there, but you can see where the ceiling panels have split and all the nice rainwater was running inside.
My brother and I spent all day from about 8am to 6pm cutting limbs and debris away from the house. We made a good dent in it, but we are'nt close to being finished yet. And I suspect that there'll be more damage to come as we try to get the heavier sections fo trees off the house. Oh joy and rapture! We'll be back at it again on Tuesday till he has to go teach at HCC and I have to go in to work at 2:30pm. Must seal holes in roof before then...
Ain't life grand?
My beloved wife up and left me with no hint or warning. I am serious about the beloved part. I truly and deeply love my wife. I miss her so very much that I feel it physically all the time and I wish she was here with me now. I think about her constantly. I ache for her...long for her. I would like to think that she feels the same and thinks about me and what's been going on, but I am pretty sure that the friends she is staying with try to keep her occupied as much as possible to lessen the chances of that happening. Can you tell that the "friend" and I don't agree on too many things? Melissa has decided that her friend is more important than our marriage. I don't know if I should say it like she just came to that decision though. It's probably always been kind of that way with this one crazy friend. I'd stop speaking to friends of mine for talking about my wife to me the way her friend has been spitting out poison about me to her. I dare say that I'd come to blows over a few of the statements that have been made if they were made about her to me. That's what happens when you love someone. You just love them...that's all there is to it. I am still utterly confused and fucked up over that one. She has hurt me more deeply and wickedly than anyone else could have. I am sure that bit of knowledge would bring joy to her friend's heart and maybe even hers now that she's been up there with her for a couple fo weeks. I'd like to think not, but I am not sure what to think about that right now...I just know that I miss her and it hurts my heart to know that she could be here with me if she wanted to, but she's not. I guess the hardest part is just being plain old lonely.
And now I am living in my parents' spare room till FEMA can come out and figure something out. From the phone call with them this evening it may be close to three weeks or longer before I can expect to see any help from them. Eh well, we'll see.
And how did you guys do? I hope much better than me. Of course it would be a little hard for your month to suck worse than mine I think, although it certainly is possible. Maybe I'll win the lottery and change some things. You never know I suppose.
You already know if you need *anything*, right?
That goes for both of you. No questions asked.
Okay, well maybe I'll ask questions but it's not like they'll be *relevant* questions or anything.
Seriously, though.
Hope you're alright at your parents.