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calliopes_pen) wrote2008-09-05 03:11 pm
calliopes_pen) wrote2008-09-05 03:11 pm
Tree Falls Thanks To Gustav, Everyone's Mostly Fine
Raise your hand if you remember me saying that Gustav shouldn't bother any of my relatives in Louisiana or Florida. Looks like everyone was wrong.
Hurricane Gustav caused an oak tree that weighed 25,000 lbs to fall on the roof of a relative’s house down in Louisiana. According to the guy that came out to survey the damage, it should have destroyed their house completely…but it’s still standing. It landed on the roof over the living room, which is really more like a den. The sections of roof were very thick, so it’s a miracle that nobody was inside the room when it happened.
They’ve abandoned the house for the moment, and gone next door to live with a neighbor/relative. They are also planning to chop down every single oak tree that is near their house. And the reason it didn’t destroy the house completely? They had a great contractor that built it over 20 years ago--their nephew, I think it was. They’re going to get him in to fix it. They found out how much the tree weighed when they got a crane out there, and broke it in half before they could lift it--they then weighed each half.
I just heard that a couple of other relatives had (briefly) moved into their house, to get away from the other hurricanes, too. One of them was in the bedroom when it happened, which is apparently right next to the den. She's fine--traumatized, but fine.
Hurricane Gustav caused an oak tree that weighed 25,000 lbs to fall on the roof of a relative’s house down in Louisiana. According to the guy that came out to survey the damage, it should have destroyed their house completely…but it’s still standing. It landed on the roof over the living room, which is really more like a den. The sections of roof were very thick, so it’s a miracle that nobody was inside the room when it happened.
They’ve abandoned the house for the moment, and gone next door to live with a neighbor/relative. They are also planning to chop down every single oak tree that is near their house. And the reason it didn’t destroy the house completely? They had a great contractor that built it over 20 years ago--their nephew, I think it was. They’re going to get him in to fix it. They found out how much the tree weighed when they got a crane out there, and broke it in half before they could lift it--they then weighed each half.
I just heard that a couple of other relatives had (briefly) moved into their house, to get away from the other hurricanes, too. One of them was in the bedroom when it happened, which is apparently right next to the den. She's fine--traumatized, but fine.
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There's still a lot that was messed up in that area of their house.
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