Last night Hardin was hit with a very bad wind storm. The storm hit about 8:00 pm. At first it just started out as ordinary wind, then it started to pick up. You could see the storm out to the north. It got dark fast and very dusty. There were times when you could feel the house shake. I went out to get photos of the clouds, but Gary yelled at me to get back inside the house.
The wind lifted our little utility trailer and moved it about 6 inches and you could see the grass swirling around in a circle. We were getting ready to get into the crawl space if needed. That's when I looked out and saw that some of the pine tree was in the yard. At first I thought that it was just some branches, but when I went around the corner, the whole tree was laying on the ground. I ran in the house to get cameras and told Gary that the wind knocked our tree down. At first he didn't believe me until he saw it, then it was "Holy S***".
The storm didn't last long about 15 minutes but it sure did enough damage around town. We got in the pick up and headed over to Mom's house to see if it was ok. The house is fine, no damage but she has alot of tree branches in her yard. She has a huge one that covers her whole back yard, she may have to restring her clothes line.
The roof to the Western Motel and the building next to it had their roofs blown off, which then fell onto Dollies roof. A section of roof to the Lube Shop is off and the roof to the 1st Alliance Church was ripped off. Some trailers at Sunset Village were moved off their foundations.
A lot of trees were uprooted and we are talking big pine trees and cottonwoods. Many shingles off roofs in town.
According to the news Hardin was hit with 80 mph gusts, some experts are coming in to determine what sort of wind actually did damage, whether it was wind shear, tornado, or straight on wind. My personal opinion is just strong straight on wind.
I called our home insurance to see if we have any coverage for debris removal. We don't. If we had any structure damage or fence damage then we would have been covered for $500, but since it is basically just a downed tree, nothing. Made some phone calls, have a guy coming by sometime this afternoon to take a look at it and he will call me. We sure hope he can get to it either today or tomorrow.
Here are photos of my pine tree. This was about 25-30 foot tree and it was about 10 feet round.
Missed the house
Fortunate that it was this tree and not my other one, would be a different story then.
It fell right between the house and the power line.
3 comments:
What can I say, but WOW! Its amazing how it could be uprooted like that and miss everything. Scary.
That is very scary! I hope nobody was hurt in town.
It was nerve wracking to say the least. Most damage is roofs and uprooted trees. A local landscaping company took care of the tree today. All that is left of our beautiful pine is a stump. Will get photos later.
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