At 8:30 am a storm came rolling in. It woke me up, but thats probably because for the past month we have had some nasty storms here and quite frankly have been pretty serious, so I was thinking...this one sounds like the others. I was about seconds away from getting all my kids up and in basement, but decided to just wait it out. Storm was over and Elijah noticed a tree out back on the ground. We ventured out to see what tree was down. Needless to say, we didn't have one, nor two, but 4 tree's that I could tell were visibly damaged. My heart sunk as I noticed that part of some tree's were atop the treehouse as well. I could NOT tell if the treehouse was damaged or not.
This large tree had its top removed thus taking out the tree's in its path as it fell. So if you look closely you can see two other skinny tree's that were broken off on the tops too. This large tree top also took off the top of the treehouse's tree so now our treehouse sits on a tree that is all sunny and broken apart. Which you can see in the picture below how the top of the treehouse tree is missing.
Here is what we saw when we walked outside to check on treehouse.
My dad, brother, grandpa, sister joy, nick and I all cleaned it up one afternoon. We got the majority of it done that afternoon, but my dad and brother had to come in with the backhoe and remove the top limb that was still attatched to the top of the tree on the treehouse tree. The picture below is of what we got finished the first day and you can also see the large log hanging above the roof (this is what had to be removed with the backhoe).
We are thankful it wasn't any worse. The treehouse needs a little attention. We have a hole in the roof and some siding is torn, but for now the kids still play in it. The actual tree is not nearly as straight as it once was so we will find out in a few years if the root system got torn up if the tree starts to die in a few years. If so, not real sure where our tree house will end up at??
Need some wood anyone??? We have an abundance of fire wood now. Its sad to look out back at our woods and see SUN shinning brightly thru it. When all work was said and done we ended up with 5 tree's damaged or uprooted in from this storm. And yes that is not counting the two tree's we lost prior to this storm in another one of our nasty storms this past spring. Im praying for some nice weather the rest of the year thru. No more straight line winds and please no more tornado's!!
This large tree had its top removed thus taking out the tree's in its path as it fell. So if you look closely you can see two other skinny tree's that were broken off on the tops too. This large tree top also took off the top of the treehouse's tree so now our treehouse sits on a tree that is all sunny and broken apart. Which you can see in the picture below how the top of the treehouse tree is missing.
Here is what we saw when we walked outside to check on treehouse.
My dad, brother, grandpa, sister joy, nick and I all cleaned it up one afternoon. We got the majority of it done that afternoon, but my dad and brother had to come in with the backhoe and remove the top limb that was still attatched to the top of the tree on the treehouse tree. The picture below is of what we got finished the first day and you can also see the large log hanging above the roof (this is what had to be removed with the backhoe).
We are thankful it wasn't any worse. The treehouse needs a little attention. We have a hole in the roof and some siding is torn, but for now the kids still play in it. The actual tree is not nearly as straight as it once was so we will find out in a few years if the root system got torn up if the tree starts to die in a few years. If so, not real sure where our tree house will end up at??
Need some wood anyone??? We have an abundance of fire wood now. Its sad to look out back at our woods and see SUN shinning brightly thru it. When all work was said and done we ended up with 5 tree's damaged or uprooted in from this storm. And yes that is not counting the two tree's we lost prior to this storm in another one of our nasty storms this past spring. Im praying for some nice weather the rest of the year thru. No more straight line winds and please no more tornado's!!