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Well Peter was right. The damage due to the storm was very Katrina like in my area.  I got off lucky compared to a lot of my neighbors. I was without power from Friday till Sunday night around 10:50PM. ( HATE HATE HATE not having lights at night! Thank God the temperature was cool after the blow.)  Personal losses were 5 shingles off the roof, my chimney needs some decorative wood replaced, and I had one crossbeam support broken on my fence.

I replaced the shingles myself quickly, but I'll need someone who knows what they are doing to replace the boards on the chimney. Plus, I don't wanna go up on the roof again, sucker is way steeper than I remember.

The neighbors around me range from shingle damage to multiple trees in their houses. One house lost its chimney, lots of cut up trees for the county service to pick up in yards all over. Some are so think with newly cut tree limbs that it's hard to drive down the street.  It is AMAZING how many trees were just blown over, plus almost as many were snapped in half.  Fences are strewn all over the place. I'll never see my garbage can again. I think its a miracle that no body was killed in the storm.

Next door neighbor said he had just paid off a roof replacement on some investment house and two hours later he has a tree right through it.  He was there when the storm hit and said it was crazy. Katrina did a whole lot of damage to our area and it took 4-5 hours do to it. This storm did equivalent (if localized) damage and he said it passed in under 5 minutes.