PNW Storm

[mimitabby]

even our big puddles have dried up now. Now hundreds of washingtonians are looking for Fema money because they don't have houses! how lucky we are!

[bikerchic]

...we've just finished having the last of the logs milled yesterday. The logs from the three 85' cedar trees that fell on our house during the storm, late Sunday night on the 2nd.







This poor guy picked the wrong place to park, his truck is on the root ball of our 3 trees!



Removing the trees;



It was a long month and 2007 sure went out with a bang for us!

We are so looking forward to a great '08!

Happy New Year everyone and keep safe, warm and hold those you love close.

[salsabike]

Wow! Glad you're okay, Bikerchic. Jeez.

[KnottedYet]

Whoa, Nelly!!!

[Xrayted]

Glad no one was hurt, bikerchic. Wow! It ripped through here but the really bad stuff missed us where we are in Beaverton. No flooding in our apartment either as we are on the 2nd floor. (It's a pain when taking the bikes in and out, but it comes in handy during the big rains. )

[bikerchic]

I appricate your kind replies and yes we are fine no one was hurt. As you can see by that one picture only the top of one of the trees actually landed on the roof and no damage to it.

We had to replace the rain gutter there and the one on the garage which we just had installed new in October! And we had also just re-sided the house and no damage to the new siding either.

All in all we were pretty lucky the repairs we'll need to do in the spring to our new sod....which was not doing too well because of all the shade the trees gave, LOL. Some re-seeding and the usual fertilizing and I'm sure with all the sun it will get it's going to go gain busters, yay grass! A few new plants and we'll be fine, plus my veggie garden should do much better this spring, can't wait!

We also found that three other trees on the opposite side of the back yard also were compromised and we had to have them taken down before they fell, they probably would have fallen onto our neighbors house! I couldn't have slept at night thinking that they could go any moment and hurt our neighbors!

We live in a multi-zone area and have commercial buildings behind us, while the trees provided a bit of privacy the asphalt parking lot is what damaged the roots to the trees in and weakened them on that side so when that wind caught the tops of the trees they acted like a sail and ........ TIMBER!
Man what a thud too! I had total earthquake flashbacks from surviving a 7.6 in California in '93, crazy stuff!

Weird the tree guy said that he has seen it time and time again in situations just like ours where you would think the trees would fall directly straight which would have hit the bedroom where we were sleeping.....he said they always find the hole in the yard and go there like they are being pulled into a vortex. In this case they went diagonally to the space between the house and garage! Freaky, but I sure am glad!