Pardon Our Mess...
There's a squashed Mercedes in there somewhere...
Here's my 6 foot 4 inch husband next to the root system of the upheaved tree. He's not yelling by the way :)
This branch is lying on our roof which you can partially see in the right corner. The power lines look all helter skelter because the branch basically scooped them up in two different places and twisted them all around.
We don't know the progression but we think our tree snapped this electric pole in half. When our tree came down it grabbed up everyone's wires and then ripped everyone's meter boxes off of their houses. Just lovely.
We live in a Nationally Registered Historic district which means everything is really old and really close together. Our block is a triangle block where all of our backyards touch. To have these huge trees come down and have no one hurt is just amazing to me. God's hand was definitely on our house. Nick was just shaking his head saying the tree behind our house defied gravity and defied physics by not falling into our house. But that's how God rolls.
All of this happened Monday and it is now Sunday. We were without power until Thursday when it came back on (thank the Lord!). We still have some huge chunks of wood to get rid of but other than that we are business as usual here.
Now I just have piles of laundry to catch up on. I'll take that any day though :)
Hope you all survived the storms safely! God is good, all of the time!