Hurricane Ophelia kicked my ass.
Hurricane Ophelia never made landfall but she skirted the coast of NC where I live, and unfortunately I was one of the unlucky people who suffered significant damage. Three trees in my yard were blown down, in addition to another tree next door that blocked our road. Two of the trees that fell landed on my house. The first tree that fell is shown in the following two pictures, the 2nd tree that fell was rotten and shattered. The first tree punched about 4 holes in my roof, with the majority of damage being over my daughter Lauren's bedroom. Our power was out from Wednesday at 1pm until Friday evening at 530 pm. Winds were clocked at over 100mph in my area and our county was declared a disaster area by the Prez. Although this is NOTHING compared to Katrina, it still sucks when it happens to you.
BELOW: This huge tree in my backyard was blown down and completely uprooted. Half of the tree is in my neighbor's backyard. It also knocked down our apple tree when it fell...we are hoping that we may be able to salvage the apple tree once this pine tree has been removed.
BELOW: The ceiling in Lauren's bedroom is hanging after many inches of rain fell through the holes in the roof, causing the sheetrock and insulation to become wet and fall. The smell of wet insulation is not good, lemme tell ya. Blech. Lauren has moved into Alex's room until her bedroom is repaired.
My brother's construction crew came and patched the roof and removed the tree from my roof on Friday morning.
BELOW: As you can see I have a lot of yard work to do....well I won't be doing it myself but I will be hiring someone else to do it. As soon as this mess is cleaned up I am going to be removing the remaining 7 pine trees in my yard to prevent this catastrophe from happening again!! Pine trees suck.
BELOW: After the power came back on, we came home and started cleaning. I had to throw out everything in my fridge and go buy more food. As you can see, Buttons was very glad the power was back on, and he was able to cool off. He is chillin.
BELOW: This huge tree in my backyard was blown down and completely uprooted. Half of the tree is in my neighbor's backyard. It also knocked down our apple tree when it fell...we are hoping that we may be able to salvage the apple tree once this pine tree has been removed.
BELOW: The ceiling in Lauren's bedroom is hanging after many inches of rain fell through the holes in the roof, causing the sheetrock and insulation to become wet and fall. The smell of wet insulation is not good, lemme tell ya. Blech. Lauren has moved into Alex's room until her bedroom is repaired.
My brother's construction crew came and patched the roof and removed the tree from my roof on Friday morning.
BELOW: As you can see I have a lot of yard work to do....well I won't be doing it myself but I will be hiring someone else to do it. As soon as this mess is cleaned up I am going to be removing the remaining 7 pine trees in my yard to prevent this catastrophe from happening again!! Pine trees suck.
BELOW: After the power came back on, we came home and started cleaning. I had to throw out everything in my fridge and go buy more food. As you can see, Buttons was very glad the power was back on, and he was able to cool off. He is chillin.
posted by jules mcnubbin (buttmuffin) at Sunday, September 18, 2005
