WE WILL Rebuild

Early this morning Mark went out to check out the damage from the storm last night. To his horror he found damage, check out the state of the volleyball court. All the chairs that had been so neatly lined up were in a jumble and smashed to the ground by the high winds and driving rains.

We WILL rebuild. (a joke but not a very good joke) This could have been so much worse.  Last night when the sirens went off and we jumped in the car to drive up to the apartment Emma was so upset about us leaving she came out of her doggy door into the storm and ran up to the apartment where we were trying to get the guests to safety. The rain was slamming into us at that point and Emma refused to leave whining at the car door as if to say, "how could you leave me alone?" We opened the back door of the car and let her inside. Now Emma usually hides under the table or under my desk during a big thunder storm and this was a LOUD thunder storm. We couldn't believe she would venture outside during it and make it up to the barn to ask for help. All joking aside though, this video was taken from Weaver Ridge Golf Club from the 18th fairway: 

The only other damage was that big downed tree and I got the rest of the story on how Matt was able to move it off the drive. Logan showed up with his truck so Matt, Anni and Logan used Logan's truck to pull it off the drive. Below are a few pictures taken this morning. 

 Two trees actually fell, below is the stump of the smaller tree. The larger tree stump was in a big clump of poison ivy. 

It is still raining but not hard. We got almost 4 inches of rain Friday during day and last night. Today more rain is predicted and Sunday is suppose to be another day of unsettled weather with thunderstorms and heavy rain.  Not very good timing to pull the roof off of mom's house and yet that is exactly what she wants to do.  Mom, Diane, Joan and the kids all left for Gulf Shores around 4:00 am today. She decided she wants solar up on her roof so Jozsef has been hired to replace her existing roof with a metal roof and she wanted it done while she is gone these next 11 days. Mom had a dumpster delivered and that is sitting in her driveway waiting for the old roof. Meanwhile we will be using mom's house to host potluck tonight.