Glacier
09-28-2004, 09:38 PM
While it's probably nothing to those of you who recently survived hurricanes--winds like this just don't happen up here. Yesterday we had a major windstorm. I lost over twenty trees in my yard. Eight of those hit my dog run fences. Fortunately, no one escaped, they just got into another fenced area and none of them were hurt. My new fence is still standing and isn't damaged at all.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Scenery/storm2.jpg
Behind those trees is the main fence for my biggest dog run!
The freezers are full of dog food meat--one of them is trashed.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Scenery/storm.jpg
Same trees from a different angle. The trees did not break, they were literally ripped up by their roots.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Scenery/pen.jpg
Except this one, it's a huge old tree and it snapped right in half. It took out the back of the dog run fence. The dogs could have gotten loose from there, but I think it made so much noise that it scared them away. (Most of this happened before I came home from work. the dogs were all moved to safety as soon as I got here.)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Scenery/pingopen.jpg
This is Pingo and HObo's pen. Poor Pingo was cowering in her doghouse when I got home. She was most happy to run straight to the house.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Scenery/pingo_pen.jpg
Pingo's pen again.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Scenery/kay_tree.jpg
This one makes me feel the worst. See that rope tied to the tree, it's the remants of Kayleigh's trolley tie-out.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Scenery/kay_tree2.jpg
She was still tied to the tree when it fell. I was moving Goldie to a safer spot and as we went by a huge gust of wind toppled Kayleigh's tree. Thank God she wasn't sleeping under it at the time.
I took today off work to clean up the yard and we still have tons of work to do to get it back together.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Scenery/storm2.jpg
Behind those trees is the main fence for my biggest dog run!
The freezers are full of dog food meat--one of them is trashed.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Scenery/storm.jpg
Same trees from a different angle. The trees did not break, they were literally ripped up by their roots.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Scenery/pen.jpg
Except this one, it's a huge old tree and it snapped right in half. It took out the back of the dog run fence. The dogs could have gotten loose from there, but I think it made so much noise that it scared them away. (Most of this happened before I came home from work. the dogs were all moved to safety as soon as I got here.)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Scenery/pingopen.jpg
This is Pingo and HObo's pen. Poor Pingo was cowering in her doghouse when I got home. She was most happy to run straight to the house.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Scenery/pingo_pen.jpg
Pingo's pen again.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Scenery/kay_tree.jpg
This one makes me feel the worst. See that rope tied to the tree, it's the remants of Kayleigh's trolley tie-out.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Scenery/kay_tree2.jpg
She was still tied to the tree when it fell. I was moving Goldie to a safer spot and as we went by a huge gust of wind toppled Kayleigh's tree. Thank God she wasn't sleeping under it at the time.
I took today off work to clean up the yard and we still have tons of work to do to get it back together.