And boy was I right. I saw dark clouds rolling in but when the wind picked up suddenly, it was time to hop out. Just after they got out I heard what sounded like a tarp flapping in the wind. It was coming from the pole barn in our back yard. Hubby has kept some things tarpped in the area so I figured it was just that flapping in the wind, till I noticed this....
Apparently a tree next to the pole barn fell over in the wind. That caused the roots to crack the slab the barn was built on. That in turn caused the cement blocks that were stacked just inside the pole barn to fall in.
When I made it inside to see what was damaged (a few broken cinder blocks is
all I could find) I noticed that the slider door panel had almost been
blown off the slide.
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| The Tyvek to the left of the door is the flapping noise I heard. |
This was certainly not something we expected to deal with today. Our concern now (aside from the fact that we're not sure we can finish the pole barn like we wanted), is that it would appear from how easily the tree was knocked over that our ground is saturated.
If we get more rain and wind, we are afraid we will loose an even bigger tree and we have 2 of them that are next to our house.
