The weather people predicted rain Sunday night...YES!!! We need IT!!!Got my hopes up....just to be woken up at 3am Monday morning with the sounds of rainfall and fierce winds... We got exactly .20 inches of precipitation with 70 mile an hour winds!!! Eeeeeeeekkkkk!!!
We have a 100 year old working barn with so much character it is totally awesome...however, it is vertically challenged...it is on its last leg (so to speak)....it is well ventilated and we winterize it with tarps....the animals go inside just long enough to eat....then they are "out o'here"...they may be animals...but they are not stupid!
After the winds last night we were afraid to look at the damage...so, prior to sunrise...Mr. Give drives out to the barn and shines his headlights on the barn prior to leaving for work...immediately he notices that we are missing 3 metal roof panels..."Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore...
When I leave for work the sun has risen and I notice that a huge oak branch is laying in the back yard...shingles litter the yard...the antique metal chairs on the front porch are in disarray...a huge, heavy clay pot has been thrown off the front porch and is broken on the front lawn...the glass humming bird feeders hanging on the porch survived...the miniature windmill is smashed to smithereens...apparently the "wind-dado" is selective in it's path of destruction!!!
Our theory has been....if the barn survives...so shall we!!! Well, the odds are narrowing...I say it is time to replace the barn!!! Its all in the timing, as the saying goes...we need to get ahead of the damage curve...or will FEMA come to our rescue...NOT....I am looking at plans as I type...
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