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Title: A Little Carnage at Home Tuesday Morning!
Post by: ehjorten on February 16, 2011, 09:54:17 am
Monday night a freak wind-storm blew through our area here in Puget Sound.  It was quiet and then all of a sudden it was howling and rockin' the house!  Lasted about 45 minutes and then just pouring rain.

Anyways...Tuesday morning as I was heading out the side door of the garage to go to work I noticed that one of the kids' toys was sitting outside.  I thought, what it this doing outside?  How left this out and didn't put it away?!  Then I noticed that my 12'x20' canvas carport was completely gone!!!  Holy****!  Looked around and saw it 18' away on the other side of my '77, standing on end and impaled on one of our huge Big Leaf Maple trees!  :o

It had flipped completely over the top of my '77 and was standing up in the tree behind the truck!  This car port has survived many a wind-storm and was even staked into the ground!  It ripped it out of the ground and blew it away!  It had even survived the December 7th, 2007 wind-storm we had where there was hurricane force winds with gusts over 120 MPH (my brother lost half his roof in that one and many timber tracts were wiped-out like the hand-of-God).

It was still dark and I couldn't see much, but it appeared that my '77 had got away without a scratch.  The only thing I could see was the passenger side, rear cab corner trim got knocked-off and was laying on the ground.  However, when I got home after work I noticed that the windshield was cracked.  Could have been much worse!
Title: Re: A Little Carnage at Home Tuesday Morning!
Post by: 87454westernhauler on February 16, 2011, 10:10:23 am
I know how you feel, we had a giant old willow tree loose a big old lime on my dad's old 79 gmc big dooley that is now our parts truck ::)
Title: Re: A Little Carnage at Home Tuesday Morning!
Post by: VileZambonie on February 16, 2011, 11:27:40 am
Mother nature...one mother that you don't wanna mess with! Make sure your insurance covers wind!
Title: Re: A Little Carnage at Home Tuesday Morning!
Post by: thirsty on February 16, 2011, 05:04:09 pm
This has been one wild winter everywhere. Glad to hear that the truck got minimul damage.