Mom’s New House guest

April 11, 2008

Monday I received an e-mail from my mom. However, since I worked a double I didn’t read it until Tuesday morning around 1:30 AM.
It read
“Not to alarm anyone, because we are unscathed, but that big oak tree in the back yard gave up and moved into the kitchen last night about midnight.”

I did a double take when I read it,,aether because I was shocked or just to tired to think. But it was true a tree in there back yard crashed into the kitchen while they slept.

Now my poor parents are faced with the repairs and dealing with insurance and contractors to get the work done. Thankfully though the tree didn’t hurt aether one of them. As my mom said about 2 feet to the right and it would have gone through the bedroom!

I was able to go up to my parents house yesterday and see the damage first hand. It was strange walking in to the kitchen and instead of seeing the yellow wall and window, there was hole covered with a blue tarp. It was truly amazing how much damage the tree did, yet also how much it didn’t do. It didn’t crush all of there fence, it didn’t hurt there dogs, it didn’t totally demolish the kitchen or the entire front half of the house.

So looking at the silver lining, now even though they have go through the re-pairs, they have an excuse to make some up grades. I am sure that I will have more posts about this and photos as the repairs occur.