Got home from the shop today and found the 442 and my chopper out in the open ,didn't remember leaving my tools out either.Oh **** I didn't move my stuff ,the garage moved.I found it in the back on top of the 55,Lots of scratches no dents luckey its flatblack cause I have another paint job in a can.I know it was a Home Depot type but I didn;t think they were supposed to move around by themselves.It is funny how stupid your suff looks all lined up like it was still inside but it is now outside .Well I guess I know what me and The Boy will be doing tomorrow.You just can't fight Mother Nature. Ed
I take it you have one of those canvas garages?....Guy down the road lost his today too, it was covering a real nice 50 Buick....Its sitting there in the open, no sign of the garage, just some canvas strips on the frame.
Thats a real pain to have to clean it up, have some steel off and loose on a few barn too, glad thats the worst of it and glad to see the wind finally calming down too.
They wind was brutal, kept me awake most of the night because of the old storm windows banging and vibrating. Hope you get things back in order with the garage.
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OOOhh that Sucks... I hope my shaby tent holds up untill the snow is gone. a Jaguar is sitting under that rotten tarp...That brings a question to mind...Is there a replacement for the milky tarp type garages ???
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ed i found the front end for my jeep laying next to it (one piece tilt) at least this time i bolted it back on for storage. i also went down to the harbour, out on the pier to wash the jimmy. wind was taking the top of the waves off as the crashed into the end of the jetty. pretty good show.
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Had a tornado scoot by me this summer( and one a few years back), did quite a number on my yard and trees and my hoop house but I was awake at 5 today listening to my house "cracking" with the gusts. I expected the roof to come off! I've had some solid blows up this way but that was probably the most solid in my 11 years here.
Here's pics of the gazebo and hoop house this summer. The crumbled heap that was my gazebo was bolted to the deck way in the background. We were in the basement. And strangely enough it did sound like a freight train! That's what sent us to the basement
Had a tornado scoot by me this summer( and one a few years back), did quite a number on my yard and trees and my hoop house but I was awake at 5 today listening to my house "cracking" with the gusts. I expected the roof to come off! I've had some solid blows up this way but that was probably the most solid in my 11 years here.
Here's pics of the gazebo and hoop house this summer. The crumbled heap that was my gazebo was bolted to the deck way in the background. We were in the basement. And strangely enough it did sound like a freight train! That's what sent us to the basement
VirgilHilts, Your avatar looks like the after math of YOU in a tornado as well.LOL
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Lost three limbs on a 50 year old spruce out front, the longest would have been 20 feet, shortest about 12. I sent my son out a 3:45 am to disperse the vehicles away from the trees.....good call. My canvass canopy/garage was rock solid but it's not stock, I did't follow the instructions as it was obvious to me what the shortcomings of those srtructures are. Mine has a lot of 2x4 reinforceing and it is anchored to posts set three feet in the ground.
VirgilHilts, Your avatar looks like the after math of YOU in a tornado as well.LOL
You don't know how close to the truth that is! I was snoozing when the storm hit. The roar and my wife shouting woke me. When I ran to close the front door of my house ( the rain was coming through the screen door sideways 15 feet into my house) That's when I heard the "freight train" Once the storm passed there was a huge tree limb on my front porch a foot away from skewering the front door where I had just been standing. Smashed the antique chair in half. It bounced off the ground first leaving quite a divot. It had broken off the huge poplars about 160 feet away by the road.
The deck shot shows where the gazebo was. We had just had my wifes birthday party the weekend before and the whole place was all dressed up. On the whole the damage is superficial compared to the terrible mess and tragedy stateside right now but it really gives you a inkling to how powerful wind really is. It is also still shocking to walk out and see your once familar world completely transformed.
I still haven't completely cleaned up as I have some downed and broken trees to tidy up. I have other priorites right now and that will wait till spring anyway.
What really burned me is I just had a new roof put on that week and a branch poked a hole right through it. Just glad it wasn't me or the wife it poked!
Good thing is the insurance came through on the whole mess.
Don't want to be as close as that to a twister again.
-- Edited by VirgilHilts on Sunday 4th of March 2012 06:58:48 AM
Lost three limbs on a 50 year old spruce out front, the longest would have been 20 feet, shortest about 12. I sent my son out a 3:45 am to disperse the vehicles away from the trees.....good call. My canvass canopy/garage was rock solid but it's not stock, I did't follow the instructions as it was obvious to me what the shortcomings of those srtructures are. Mine has a lot of 2x4 reinforceing and it is anchored to posts set three feet in the ground.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Of coarse its not "stock". lol ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Looked out this morning and the coverall was still there and in tact but I knew something was missing. I found out quick when my wife looked out. The greenhouse was gone. I found it in the farm field in pieces. Now the coverall is filled and I have a new job salvaging what is left to make a new one, bigger. Priorities, she just doesn't understand.
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Looked out this morning and the coverall was still there and in tact but I knew something was missing. I found out quick when my wife looked out. The greenhouse was gone. I found it in the farm field in pieces. Now the coverall is filled and I have a new job salvaging what is left to make a new one, bigger. Priorities, she just doesn't understand.
Brother I feel your pain!
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Got home from the shop today and found the 442 and my chopper out in the open ,didn't remember leaving my tools out either.Oh **** I didn't move my stuff ,the garage moved. Ed
Ed, I'm not laughing at your misfortune, just the similarities to me. The OldGirl goes to the back window and says to me, "What's that stuff laying behind the shed". I go over and look and say, "Holy Chit, that's the stuff that use to be IN the shed". The wind blew the back wall right out of the vinyl shed. One panel was 100ft away and the other panel was across the highway in the evergreens.
Hey we got most of it back up and found most of my garage and the stuff that was in it so its all good .Its funny some of the strange angles those braces are on now and it has some new skylights but mostly servived.Now since both ends are gone I was thinking maybe I could make a couple of bucks renting it out for wind tunnel testing.What do you think. Ed
Just glad it wasn't me or the wife it poked!
