Jun 15 2008
Terrible Storm
This past week was a bad one here on the farm. We had a bad wind storm the beginning of the week. It caused two maple trees to fall and hit our house. It also broke the electric pole in half leaving us without power or telephone for most of the week.
There was not as much damage as it could have been. However, it did some major roof damage and also caused us to have to replace the electric service cable going into the house. We had house insurance but I am not sure how much we will have to pay out of pocket. We were lucky to get a local logger to clean up the trees quite quickly. It cost a lot of money but at least we were able to restore power and phone to our house with in the week.
We are lucky that no one got hurt. My 80 year old mother and I were in the house at the time and I seen the trees fall. All in all the area was hit quite hard but it seems to be getting back to normal now for most. Our cousins are still without power and I am sure there a few more. I am waiting for an estimate on my roof. I am also waiting to see when and how much the insurance company will pay. Wish me luck!
