disaster in the laundry room

If pictures say a thousand words, then here you go . . . my longest post ever.

Obviously we have our work cut out for us here.  Kelly will send the pictures to the insurance company, but I don’t know if they’ll do anything about it.  Apparently a lot of water came in under the door (and around the door– it was really warped by the storm)  and we didn’t know until we were prepping for the new backdoor.  I actually stepped through the flooring.  Not easy since it was ceramic tile.

Kelly has already torn out the floor, and is preparing to “sister” the joists –at least I think that is what it is called) and then he’ll frame up the rest of the floor.  Subfloor is being delivered tomorrow and then the vinyl can go down after that.

Pictures of the repairs will be posted when they are done.

 

living room repaired (almost!)

Here’s the living room.  The door trim will be finished today along with the trim around the entry way.  The door still needs to be replaced (and I think they’ll get that done this week), then we can trim around the new door too.

We love the entry floor.  I wish we could get that in the kitchen too, but I got a real bargain on a remnant.  Just not enough remnant to do the whole kitchen!  Too bad.  There is enough left over to do right by the back door too.  We’ll match!

The wood stove and pipes get repaired on Tuesday — separate post for that!

dining room repaired

Repair work 1

Lyon’s Roofing Company

Day 1:  9:30 am to 12:00 pm

9:30-12:00: pulled off tarps, pulled off siding, put on soffit.

12:00 –  2:30: They’re gone.  Lunch probably, maybe a few supplies?  Not sure, they didn’t say.

2:30 – 6:30:  repaired holes,put on wrap, and siding (Ash Grey)

West side done: holes fixed, house wrap, facia, and siding

who’s the man?

Tali’s the man!

master bedroom repaired

garden in may

coming soon to a blog near you . . .

Kelly will be adding his voice to the blog.  He’s been itching to take a turn and now is a great time for him to take over for a bit.

Look for his first post soon . . .

Roof

We have  a roof!!

I’m having trouble figuring how to make the new laptop share pictures with my blog.  I’ll post a picture as soon as I figure it out.

Tali

pipe damage

clean up for tornado

last of the damage shots

still more

more tornado

video of tornado

 

4 minute mark is when it was in front of our house.

Go-Bags

OK.  So I’m blogging again!  I need the space to reflect again. . .

 

I learned a lot from this tornado.  There are lessons that I will never forget.

I always keep a “go-bag” packed for each person in our family.  I’ve decided to quit being shy about it.  They were invaluable during this storm.  And, if our home had been destroyed like 98% of my neighbors, they would have contained all that we would have had completely undamaged.

We had about 10 minutes notice that we needed to be somewhere safer.  We grabbed our bags and walked out the door in about 2 minutes.  The tornado ripped through 10 minutes later.

Here’s my go-bag list — All kept in a Very Good backpack!

• Toiletries Kit:  low suds soap bar, wet one towelettes, contact case/solution/glasses, toothbrush & paste, medications, lip balm, lotion, sunscreen, small towel
• First Aid Mini Kit — I keep a fully stocked one from a hiking company
• Food:  protein bars, trail mix, water purifier
• Clothes: shirt (appropriate for the season), flannel PJ pants (for relaxing and wearing while your primary pants are getting clean and dry), underwear, 2 extra pair of socks.
• Survival Kit: big knife, fire starter, whistle, headlamp (LED is best), survival bracelet (made of paracord)
• Sleeping bag or quilt
• cash
• Grab and add as walking out the door:  List of phone numbers/account numbers (kept in my journal), kindle, journal, cell charger, purse, and jacket

Things I used to carry that I took out:

• microfiber blanket — It won’t stop glass, isn’t particularly warm, and is hard to clean with limited water supplies.
• Snack bars — You’ll need more protein than you realize and you’ll twice as much as you think (even for 1-2 days)
• books – The Kindle is much lighter and has books + Bible
• music — We found our senses were overloaded by the end of the day and all we wanted was quiet.

I’m planning a post of our 15 minute boxes and a list of lessons I learned

The Tornado

March 5, 2012

March 3, 2012