Day before Hurricane Helene Sept 25, 2024

 

Wednesday Sept. 25, 2024, sunrise above while walking south, the sun rise was in the east and I had to stop and turn to watch, we were walking away from home with Beau and below is when we turned back towards the East and  home. 

Hurricane Helene was just heading into the gulf of Mexico, pink sky in the morning, sailors take warning. 

We has been sideswiped by Helene and without Power for 3 days... it tooks 5 days to clean up the mess she made...

Fast forward, three short weeks to the day, on Oct 9, 2024  Hurricane  slammed into us. Still reeling from Helene's damage that devastated 16 of our states as a 100 year storm, and the 2nd 100 year storm came calling.

It took 8 days to clean up and all but one of those without power and there are still our neigbors for block after block with no power and the National Guard is just down the street from Walmart doing cleanup and digging through the rubble of the trailer park that has been there my entire life.

I have been sideswiped by 9 hurricanes, in the past 40 years, but never in they eye of the storm.. Photos of our yard the next morning.

tree on chain link fence

After the tree was removed on day 2 by a neighbor we did not know, wielding a chain saw like a mad man and his wife dragging debris to the curb. It was flat, Bob super-maned it up and propped it to keep Beau safe. The two of them were the first of miracles.

two of the downed fence and there are 2 more like these. I piled brush up in front of them until we can get somone to fix it because Beau is afraid of the downed trash

the bottom of the pool was full almost to the top with debris like above, and limbs. Bob dug it out, dumped in a trash can, I pushed it to the curb and pitch forked it on the pile.

the dirt in the bottom of the pool was inches deep

Photo is the two limbs that broke from the tree and missed our house, more of what the chainsaw man did for us. He came and asked what he could do, I said our dog can't go out in the back yard, he cleared all that side of the yard. the monster tree did not fall on us.

We had no boards, Bob parked my Kia in front of the window on the world and this is what it looked like after, it saved the window

the support post of the porch is laying under its wheels, at 1:30 am I heard it slam the car in the black dark, had no idea what it was. it only broke a piece of plastic, the roof did not fall down.

the trash cans were roped to the tractors, they survived and did not go through our windows

Mail Box down, need a new one

We survived we did not die. I thought we would and we had many miracles.

of course I will tell you.