Not WE specifically.....we just got a storm and lost electricity for 18 hours. thank goodness for generators. but then once i figured out that we spent $32 for gas for the generator for those hours....it wasn't that great.
But friends of ours lost their home. around 2am....it took SECONDS....and the house that they just finished building less than a year ago was gone. every stick of it....roof, walls, furnishings...everything. Randy got a few stitches in his back and is bruised and sore and a nail in his heel. the kids and Myra are ok.
They have ceramic tiles on the floors. all the tiles were fine except 2 of them cracked. how do you explain that a house explodes and all blows away but the tile on the floor is fine. the tornado sucked up the sewage from the cistern and spew it through the toilet all around the basement bathroom. the computer was found and it still works. amazing.
The cows survived fine....no casualties. the dogs survived fine. the chicken shed was demolished....1 chicken was killed and 2 disappeared....the rest are fine. we can thank God that the only real casualty was a chicken.
Someone brought over a 5th wheel for them to live in for now. A cousin, who is the manager of a lumber yard, put in an emergency order for trusses and 2x4s and walls. he says by the weekend they will have rebuilt the walls and have a roof on. and they have full replacement coverage in insurance.....so it will all work out in the end.
As adults, we can cope and be glad no one was seriously hurt and know that we can rebuild. but children don't have a full grasp of this. their 'stuff' is gone....their clothes are gone....their room is gone. i know the devastation in Joplin was great....but when it happens to someone that you know.....it seems so much worse. nothing else in the neighborhood was hit. was it because his house was in a clearing and on a hill. would trees have saved it? i guess we'll never know.
I pray i never have to experience a tornado personally and pray that our friends will be back in their new home again real soon.
But friends of ours lost their home. around 2am....it took SECONDS....and the house that they just finished building less than a year ago was gone. every stick of it....roof, walls, furnishings...everything. Randy got a few stitches in his back and is bruised and sore and a nail in his heel. the kids and Myra are ok.
They have ceramic tiles on the floors. all the tiles were fine except 2 of them cracked. how do you explain that a house explodes and all blows away but the tile on the floor is fine. the tornado sucked up the sewage from the cistern and spew it through the toilet all around the basement bathroom. the computer was found and it still works. amazing.
The cows survived fine....no casualties. the dogs survived fine. the chicken shed was demolished....1 chicken was killed and 2 disappeared....the rest are fine. we can thank God that the only real casualty was a chicken.
Someone brought over a 5th wheel for them to live in for now. A cousin, who is the manager of a lumber yard, put in an emergency order for trusses and 2x4s and walls. he says by the weekend they will have rebuilt the walls and have a roof on. and they have full replacement coverage in insurance.....so it will all work out in the end.
As adults, we can cope and be glad no one was seriously hurt and know that we can rebuild. but children don't have a full grasp of this. their 'stuff' is gone....their clothes are gone....their room is gone. i know the devastation in Joplin was great....but when it happens to someone that you know.....it seems so much worse. nothing else in the neighborhood was hit. was it because his house was in a clearing and on a hill. would trees have saved it? i guess we'll never know.
I pray i never have to experience a tornado personally and pray that our friends will be back in their new home again real soon.
2 comments:
Wow, that's quite a story! They are very lucky, not only to survive the storm but to have such wonderful neighbors and friends.
Wow, Shirley, that is sad. Where do they live? That is sad for their kids, they really don't always understand. It is so nice that you guys pitch in and help. I'll have to put them on the prayer chain.
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