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Post by Alpo on Mar 19, 2022 7:24:03 GMT -6
It, pretty much, jumped over me. There are some pieces of someone's roof in the front yard. Pieces is someone else's roof in the backyard. I know they're different because the one in the backyard is shingles and the one in the front is metal. There's about a 6x3 foot solar panel. It busted my gate down. I thought they used to sell chain link fence under the title of cyclone fence, because cyclones didn't hurt it. It threw a piece of tree at my tool shed.
Could have been much worse though. Lady down at the end of the block, it took her roof off. I heard there were two houses next block over that lost their roofs. I was without power for four and a half hours.
It could have been a lot worse.
I was going to put some pictures in, but they are all too large, and I do not know how to make them smaller on a phone.
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Post by piney on Mar 19, 2022 8:59:26 GMT -6
That sounds horrific, but I'm glad to hear you didn't have your roof torn off or get injured.
I can make pictures smaller if you want to send them to me. My phone has a crop/edit feature in the photo gallery, it's a Samsung.
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Post by Alpo on Mar 19, 2022 9:35:43 GMT -6
Thank you. They are on their way. They can't be bigger than one Meg, and they seem to be running between three and five.
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Post by piney on Mar 19, 2022 9:55:26 GMT -6
Pictures are crazy, I'm constantly resizing them from cell phone to laptop and beyond. Here they are:
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Post by piney on Mar 19, 2022 9:56:46 GMT -6
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Post by Alpo on Mar 19, 2022 11:17:42 GMT -6
That bottom one, that's a piece of somebody's tin roof. The next one up shows my gate all busted down, and you can just see a piece of that solar panel that got blowed off of someone's roof. The next one up is a close-up of the gate. Busted it all to hell. And the first one, if you blow the picture up some you can see that chunk of tree that hit the door and broke the entire front wall down on the tool shed.
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Post by piney on Mar 19, 2022 11:48:13 GMT -6
I hope didn't get too scared. My dog always went behind the toilet when it stormed, he wedged himself in behind and wouldn't be pried out. The shed really got smacked.
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Post by sparkle on Mar 21, 2022 5:55:25 GMT -6
Youch! I guess I need to be concerned now, beyond my obvious concern for the welfare of my friends. I now live just a few hundred miles from Piney. We were completely unaware of the ruckus. Glad you made it through with just some infrastructure damage, Piney.
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Post by Alpo on Mar 21, 2022 6:17:24 GMT -6
Saturday and Sunday, while walking the dog, I went a different direction than I normally do. Just two or three blocks away from where I live and it looked like it was after the hurricane again. Windows boarded up. Tarps stretched over roofs.
Couple of houses that I know that they just got them repaired from the hurricane damage now are torn up again.
My power went out about 6:30, and it came back on a little after 11:00. Guy four houses down still doesn't have power. The tornado hit a pole on that street and did some major damage. I was worried about freezers full of food and four hours with no power. He's been 3 days.
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Post by sparkle on Mar 21, 2022 7:26:25 GMT -6
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Post by piney on Mar 21, 2022 13:06:33 GMT -6
Youch! I guess I need to be concerned now, beyond my obvious concern for the welfare of my friends. I now live just a few hundred miles from Piney. We were completely unaware of the ruckus. Glad you made it through with just some infrastructure damage, Piney. Oh I was only posting Alpo's pics for him, he was the one with the damage. Tornado season is just around the corner up here though, it's definitely time to watch for storms. It's 65F here today and I've been cutting and burning a huge 15' branch that fell on my roof during that nasty wind storm we had a few weeks ago.
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Post by sparkle on Mar 21, 2022 14:39:57 GMT -6
Youch! I guess I need to be concerned now, beyond my obvious concern for the welfare of my friends. I now live just a few hundred miles from Piney. We were completely unaware of the ruckus. Glad you made it through with just some infrastructure damage, Piney. Oh I was only posting Alpo's pics for him, he was the one with the damage. Tornado season is just around the corner up here though, it's definitely time to watch for storms. It's 65F here today and I've been cutting and burning a huge 15' branch that fell on my roof during that nasty wind storm we had a few weeks ago. Thanks for clearing that up. Honest mistake, knowing that you're in the same neighborhood as me, tornado-wise. I'm about 20 miles from Sioux Falls.
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Post by piney on Mar 21, 2022 16:39:31 GMT -6
For sure, 200 miles is nothing for tornadoes on a straight shot between here and there. I hope we don't have a violent tornado season, TX just had a rash of tornadoes that ripped the roof off a school gymnasium in Jacksboro (no kids were hurt). Last time I had a tornado go over was when I first moved here 27 years ago, I had to go into the attic to repair a window and the roof was 'breathing.' Ugh.
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Post by sparkle on Mar 21, 2022 17:14:50 GMT -6
For sure, 200 miles is nothing for tornadoes on a straight shot between here and there. I hope we don't have a violent tornado season, TX just had a rash of tornadoes that ripped the roof off a school gymnasium in Jacksboro (no kids were hurt). Last time I had a tornado go over was when I first moved here 27 years ago, I had to go into the attic to repair a window and the roof was 'breathing.' Ugh. YIKES!
The day I moved into my new house, we had to stop unloading the U-Haul when the wind really whipped up. That night, a tornado touched down in Lennox, about 30 miles from me, without doing much damage. Nice welcome.
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Post by piney on Mar 21, 2022 17:17:01 GMT -6
Oh good grief!
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