Saturday Morning Suprise!!

Well Hanna passed by us this morning. The winds were very strong, however we did not get a whole lot of rain, thank God, because the wind caused enough damage... We were woken up about 6 am by a loud noise, we looked around the house and sort of wrote it off as thunder. I got up and watched the weather, because at that time the wind was really blowing very hard. It slowed down around 8am and I went outside to check things out. I turned the corner off of the deck and immediately realized what had made that loud noise last night, a tree had fallen and hit the house!!! I then ran inside and grabbed the camera and checked all of the rooms in the house for interior damage, luckily all of the damage in the house was in the stairway and did not affect any of our bedrooms. Had it fallen about 5-10 feet to the right it would have landed right on our bedrooms. I quickly woke Pete up (Kennedy was already awake) and we called the property manager. She came out within about 15-20 minutes and immediately had people out to repair the damages, she was wonderful. It is now 3:30, and the tree has been cut up and hauled away and all of the mess that it left is now gone; Men have come and measured the roof which has to be repaired from the tree branches that came through it, and all of the holes have been temporarily patched up. Talk about an exceptional response!! Lets just hope that Ike stays on course and does not come our way this week too...

this is what I saw first, and thought we lost a small tree....

this is the tree that fell

side view, you can see where it hit the gutters and roof

hole in roof above our bedroom

This is the big branch that left a hole

this is inside the house...