Storm February 2017 {part 1}

On February 25, around 3:45pm we were hit with straight line winds (We call it a tornado, although it technically wasn't called a tornado). The actual storm didn't last for more than a couple minutes, but the destruction was terrible. We were down in our basement, and I wasn't that scared, but when Dad & Brent started saying that barns are coming down, things got a little scary.  When we came up from the basement and looked outside, it was overwhelming. There was debris everywhere and 3 of our barns were either totally destroyed or somewhat messed up.

Our porch furniture was blown right off the porch.

 

Sadly, we lost two of our pretty willow trees and a cute little chicken shed that Leah had just fixed up to play in....

Part of the white barn roof was laying out in the field....rafters and all.

Our house was fine except for cosmetic things here and there. We got a new roof, and sometime in the near future we will be getting new siding and some new windows.

This barn was shifted, and part of the roof destroyed. They were able to straighten it back up, and put a new roof on- thanks to all the volunteers!

We live back a long lane, that borders my Grandpa's property. We went out the lane about half an hour after the storm, and when we crested the hill things looked terrible. Grandpa's shop was totally down, and multiple roofs were off.

This is from the top of our hill looking over to my Uncle Josh's farm. 897 was shut down for a long time....

Dad owns this house and rented it to Mattie. Her house was the only house that had the roof ripped off, and was not livable. She was devastated!

Things just looked terrible in our valley....


This is part one...stay tuned for part two and the start of cleanup!