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#340549 Jan 27th, 2011 at 09:36 AM
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Some yard photos *****the EVENT*****

By the dates, 4 days after the BEFORE photos.
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Very nice, Tim_n, Is this after a storm?


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D'oh! forgot to explain the storm.

The popular name was an "inland hurricane"....think it's technically a derecho (or something similar), had 90-100 mph straight line winds for about 1/2 hr....of the 15 trees in the immediate yard, we lost all or part of 12.

the yard went from 80/20 shade/sun to 20/80 shade/sun

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hmmmm.....not finding after pics....of course.

Anyway, it's about back to where it was before, but I still feel like I could use more full sun plants.....

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Uhhh...were you in the house when that happened? shock nervous


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No, as it happened.

The other half was....he said that he stood in the basement doorway & watched the trees get whipped around and start falling, one after another....thinking any minute the next was coming down on the house.

Amazingly enough, of the dozen-plus trees downed near the house, we only got a few smaller limbs hit the roof....The majority of damage was a lot of guttering torn down.

We were without electricity for 10-12 days (or was that weeks? seemed like it).

We were right at the western edge of the storm track, it went east for several hundred miles, across southern MO, IL and KY before dying down.

It's odd, the worst damage is a path 1/2 mile wide (of which we were dead center), with only moderate damage surrounding.....tho it looks like the path widened as the storm progressed.


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Wow, that tree was close to your roof.


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That looks like quite the storm. Its always amazing to see what mother nature can do.


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Glad you werent inside an the other is ok.

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