We had a wind storm come through a couple weekends ago and there’s still a mess to clean up. I can’t really do much with my barn until the insurance adjuster comes and checks it out and that’s not scheduled until December 27th. But I needed some time outside and it’s a nice day so I figured I can at least clean up some of the branches that are cluttering up the back yard. I finally got my phone camera working again (just had to uninstall enough stuff until the offending one was gone) so I’ve taken some photos.
I still haven’t been able to trim the video of the barn collapsing yet. I can play it back but it’s 45 minutes long and none of the video tools I have for editing recognize the file type. It’s from an older hard-drive based video camera and although tools like VLC will play it, I haven’t been able to convert it to extract just the 15 seconds that are interesting.
But here are some photos. I was hoping to extract the ladder that got crushed because I need to get up on the roof of the house to replace some shingles. What do you think, should I ever try to go up on that ladder again? Yeah, me neither. I took a couple photos where it cracked the concrete and then looked around and noticed that it seems to be that the ladder is the only thing holding the entire barn roof up on that end. Hmm, maybe I should vacate now.
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- Cut wood usually smells nice. These Cottonwood trees don’t.
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- I can’t believe my little fruit trees weren’t destroyed. Not that they were producing anything, but still nice that they’re still here.
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- The rototiller slept through the entire incident.
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- Neighbor’s shed fared better. Their tree is gone, though.
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- I can see my house from here!
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- Notice how the wood was ripped apart – it’s still connected to the wall/footings.
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- I used to park a 21′ open bow boat here. It would have sustained quite a bit of damage.
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- Shredded the two 8×8 sheds inside the barn.
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- That’s my lathe that’s holding up the collapsed wall. I suspect some damage there…
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- The concrete wall (3-4 feet high) helped the roof from missing the emergency fuel – gasoline and propane. Good thing those weren’t crushed open!
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- Just barely missed the mower.
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- Yeah… that’s bending quite a bit.
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- Hmmm, what else is holding up the barn roof on this side?
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- Whack!
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- The image is sideways. See the crack in the concrete from where the ladder is resting all the way down?
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- Notice how there’s nothing but the ladder holding up the rest of the roof on the South side here.
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- View from the West looking East
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- I doubt this hurt the ATV much but we won’t know until I can get that beam off of it.
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