Sunday, September 30, 2012

Typhoon Jelawat: Cleanup on another Sunday

To those of you not following on Facebook, yes we have had another Typhoon, making 4 since moving here in July!  We have been really busy the past few weeks, and I will have to catch up on the blog. We had their birthday party last Saturday, beautiful weekend without a storm :)
This storm was the worst of the ones we had so far. Lots of wind and damage to a lot of areas. This was a super typhoon again that hit around 7am Saturday morning. The front of the storm lasted until around 11:30 and then the eye came through. It was very quiet until 1:00pm when the backside of the storm came through. Intense!!  Lots of stuff flying around in the air including the branches off this tree. I remember walking by the front window and catching something out of the corner of my eye, went and saw this big branch fly by! 
We had a nice morning here today, it was cooler and surprisingly nice outside. We took around the neighborhood to see some of the damage and then went to the playground to have some fun.
Small palm tree snapped in half!
Cooper found some debris and was helping clean up. Not sure where it came from!
Our backyard is covered in leaves and branches, but no damage to anything. Glad I put the sandbags on the patio furniture or it might have flown away!
Random places the storm left things.
Neighbor lost part of the roof.
Play set mangled in someone's backyard.
Plastic shed ended up twisted
These poor people's roof was torn to shreds and found several blocks away along the grass and street.

Lots and lots of broken branches
Swings on the playground left twisted around the poles.

We also saw tons of trees that were completely uprooted. Intense storm, glad we are all safe and hope this is the last for awhile!

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