Friday, May 6, 2011

Tornado Part II

Here are a few pictures of our last couple weeks (double click the photo to see it larger):
Our yard after the storm - hard to capture the scale - we had to have the three leaning trees taken out by "professionals" - I have a hard time calling the crew who showed up "professionals", but that could be a whole post in itself!

We are so thankful these trees missed Roger and Lena's bedroom and our neighbors house!

This is probably the worst house in our neighborhood - this house is just painful to look at - sadly this family does not plan to rebuild


This is the Ibach's house - their house moved off it's foundation about six feet - but the wind left a plastic flower pot sitting in the same place on the front porch. Weird.

An areial shot of our neighborhood


Roger I and Roger II are a dangerous/brave combo - wonder what will happen when Roger III is old enough to really join the mix!

Clean-up begins. We were AMAZED at the outpouring of help from volunteers. This would have taken us months to clean up on our own.

Bonfire anyone? Although, maybe you'd like it to be a little bigger...

And sweet Claire with Lena giving her a kiss - her favorite thing to do to her (thankfully)

Our friend Syd taking care of the babies

Claire has been such a joy - I'm looking forward to having more time to focus on her now that life it begin to take a bit more shape.







1 comment:

livinginthemidwest said...

Wow, Karen I didn't realize you all were hit by these tornadoes as well. So glad your house and family are okay! Jason's parents are dealing with a lot of damage (thankfully not their house) in Tuscaloosa as well. So sad to see such devistation.