The tornado clean up went well. Humbling to say the least. Miraculously no one was hurt or killed. No pictures, didn't feel right taking pictures. It was surreal going there. It's a small country road about 10 minutes from our house by road. We get to the turn off and there are barricades saying road closed. We drove around those and saw no damage at all. We keep driving through some thick woods over some small hills. Then we crest the next hill and the trees disappeared. Stems snapped off, trees flattened, shattered 2x4s, sheet metal in tree tops, debris everywhere. There was a line of Red Cross trucks along the right of the road. We had to check in and say the name and address of where we're going. It was just up the road a few hundred yards. Along the road we saw a house with the whole roof and half the side missing. Next to it was a mobile home flipped on its side. We get to the house we were going to right as a power company truck was pulling out of the driveway. He had just gotten his p0wer back on after 3 days.
He was a very nice man with his son with him. He had a broken hand and couldn't do much. I could tell it drove him crazy since he wanted to help. I had my wife and boys with me. We all had a great time despite the circumstances. His house was right on the edge of the tornado path. The house didn't have much damage luckily. The tree cleanup will take a long time. There were still tops of trees snapped off and hanging 50 feet up out in the woods.
I mostly worked on a massive red oak yard tree. The top was huge. I got it all cut up except the main stem. I was glad to cut it and not someone without some experience. The homeowner said Sunday some people were there cutting that made him really nervous.
The homeowner was extremely thankful, didn't even know what to say when we left. I enjoyed helping, and it was definitely surreal and humbling. Further up the road there were a few other heavily damaged old mobile homes. Some damaged houses too. He said it only took about 10 seconds for it all to happen. Said it was extremely loud. He got our phone numbers and wants to have people over for a cookout when the clean up is done. It was so strange because trees on the east side of the yard fell to the north. Trees to the north and west fell west and south.
Have to give those old tanks something to eat.
