Peek-A-Boo.... Ugh!!!Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:39 pm
Ok, I finally had a chance to upload the photos I took of the damage that windstorm did that we had blow over last week. It was so wierd, that it came and went so fast, and when it was over (literally in just minutes) it was like it never even happened as the skies cleared right up and every thing was all honky dory again. With the exception that the barn roof was mutalated. Ugh!!!
Our barn isn't anything fancy to begin with, but it's the best that hubby and I could muster for now. It's just your average simple "Florida Cracker Pole Barn w/Tin Roof". It isn't much, I know, but with the wind damage, now it's even less, LOL. The stalls beneath it are enclosed upwards of about 5 feet high walls, where the upper portion was left open where the summer breeze could keep the horses cool under the tree shading. Guess it's seems to have somehow ended up becoming a major "wind tunnel" in Florida's "fun weather" though. Ugh!!!!!!!
Anywhooo... here at the photos I took of it.
Photo #1 is from the angle of standing in the stall looking up at the trees through the gaping hole. "Peek-a-boo" (cringing a feeble grin). You can see where the sheet of insulation is ripped from underneath too, and over to the left, somehow the tin over top was slammed down hard enough to actually slit through that sheet of insulation in a couple spots.
Photo #2 is from me standing at the other end looking up. Now, this one is just WEIRD! You can see where several sheets of insulation are all busted up, mangled and/or totally GONE...yet my wind chimes are still hanging there, purty as ya please, and fully intact. Also, you can see what was left of the damage from when the tornados ripped through here last year and took pretty much the whole shebang with it. The grayer boards up in there were all that was left from last year's damage. The tanner boards are the newer ones that we had to replace when we rebuilt it all back then. I don't have any photos of all the damage from last year. I was way too preoccuppied with other priorities at the time to be able to take time for photos of it all. With much regret, the images are forever burned in my heart of it all though. Heaven have mercy!
{{{MAJORHEAVYSIGHS}}} The damage from last week is totally DIDDLY SQUAT in comparison, thankfully, but still, it's just another thing to put back on our "to do" list of chorese, that "was" checked off TWICE ALREADY! A thorn in our day, definately, but even more so, just so thankful that's ALL it was. Heaven knows.
Anyways, the last 3 photos just shows the topside of the roof, and then the last one where the one piece from the corner landed well over 200 feet away. Also, to the left of where that piece landed, you can see where a cluster of trees fell over by the roots right by it, and the "wind tunnel" path through the trees to the left of that.
It still baffles me as to how quickly it all happened and then it was gone, like it never happened, other than the "mark" it left on my barn and through the trees.
Sure do hope and pray this will be the extent of this year's "Florida Weather Drama". Lord willing.
Well, thanks for letting me whine about it. {{{HUGS}}} You have know idea how much it helps to just "deal" with it, even with it as minor as it was by comparison to last year. Heaven have mercy.
Warmest appreciations,
Tanya
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