Yes, we just had our first experience with a tornado. While unconfirmed, our neighbor saw a funnel, and our poor little 50′ shady tree out front got handed its arse. No one was hurt, and the tree only took out another tree, so except for some fence damage in the back yard, we got off relatively unscathed. Several other trees are down in the area, and those brand new 96gallon trash cans apparently made impressive flying projectiles, but at least for us, we’re all good.
Two doors up…not so lucky. A postal carrier had just stepped out of his truck to deliver a package, when blammo. He is going to be okay, but we had some fun getting the tree off of him and making sure he was okay before we moved him. It was raining so hard I couldn’t make out the faces of the college kids (in the video below) who got to him first. The guy in Browns shirt was johnny on the spot with his first aid (an actual Eagle Scout no less) and was really awesome. I managed to stay off camera for most of it, but all four networks were ‘on the scene’ for hours and you can catch a glimmer of me if you watch carefully.
Five hours of chainsaw action later, we have a huge pile of tree in front of our house, and so does our neighbor. Everyone in the four house section kicked in, and what could have been a miserable two day project was done before dusk. It’s great to have such wonderful neighbors.
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So now I am going to take four more motrin, and spin up Twister. It just seems appropriate. Good night.
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LESS than 24 hours later, our postal carrier is back on his route delivering. Take that Kevin Costner!