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!
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!
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