a teeny tiny visit from Ike last night ...

in the wee hours the tail of Ike blew through our area. A little rain would have been appreciated here but we seemed to have gotten just the winds. Once again we are Lucky, we did recieve damage (like when don't we) but what hit us is minor compared to what others have gotten. I haven't heard of any serious damage in the d'burg area.



the garage seems to be what was hit the hardest for us



shingles & siding



a little siding on the south end of the house



and we lost a total of 3 trees, this was one of our biggest pine trees on the back of the property behind the garage (you can't really tell by the pic but it was quite big)



one of our bradford pears on the front of the property, it was split into THREE pieces!



this is the trunk of the bradford pear, it's amazing to think that was done with wind

this is the third tree, down at the pond. It took out several limbs in the surrounding trees with it.

So everyone here is good, nothing major just some clean up & going to have to deal with repairs, maybe insurance (ugggh, dread that).

The cable did go out, oh yeah remember we just upgraded so that meant NO tv, NO phone, & NO internet!!! Oh joy, but it's ok Ryan came out (my fave cable guy) and everthing is almost back to perfect now. Seems they may have to run a new phone line tomorrow.

So how are things your way? Have you seen Ike? I hope not, I hope you all have had a wonderful & safe weekend.