I'm not looking forward to damage assessment this afternoon. It was ugly when I left for work at 6am this morning. I could see that a lot of my fence was down but when I went in the backyard for a closer look, I almost got hit by a piece of someone elses fence (different color than mine...). So I just said the heck with it and drove to work. Lots of strange and ugly sights getting to the freeway from my house. Don't think I passed a single vinyl fence that was wholly intact. Lots of broken trees and debris flying around and what not. Got up on top of the overpass to get on the freeway and there was a garbage can up there that had to have come from half a mile away. Semi tipped over on the other side of the freeway etc.
Just ugly...
But from what my Wife has been telling me, it has only gotten worse since I left. She said one whole side of our fence isn't just down, but is missing - she can't see where it went. Earlier when she went out to try and save our big gate (I told her just to let it go, but she said it was going to hit the neighbors truck, he eventually came out and secured it...), she said the back yard was like watching the Wizzard of Oz there were so many pieces of fences and patio furniture and siding flying by. She was afraid to say out there, too much debris flying around. So, she's afraid to go outside, but from the windows she says that our neighbor two doors away across the cul-de-sac is missing a lot of shingles and one whole side of their house has no siding left on it. She said that our next door neighbors have a big trampoline from another neighbors yard slammed up against the back of their house. She said she saw the other next door neighbor out trying to secure something that was trying to fly off his van and a piece of plywood came flying out of nowhere and knocked him down. Every time she's called, she asks "can you hear that" and I CAN "hear that" and she says what I'm hearing is "stuff" hitting our house.
Sounds like when I head home in a few hours I'll be making a list for an insurance claim I guess...
- DAA
