Microburst

This weekend was General Conference.  We got 4 tickets to go to the Saturday Morning Session.  My sister Emma watched the two younger kids for us.  After our session we went to her place for lunch, visiting, and played some games.  There was one point where it got very overcast, the wind picked up and big forceful rain drops came.  The wind blew strongly from the south, then a moment later it blew strongly from the north.

Well, about 6:30 we get on the road to go home.  En route our neighbor calls to tell us that one of our trees blew over and landed on the house.  She didn't think that there was much damage, but wanted to let us know.  We got home about 7:30.  Zac and I took pictures of the tree and house while Kyle called our insurance agent.  The earliest a claims adjuster can come out is Tuesday.

Our Bishop stopped by to see how we were.  Several neighbors either called or stopped by.  The tree damaged the eave or soffit of the garage.  No branches broke through the roof or the windshield of the stepvan.  We are OK int he house.  I am hoping that we can get enough home owners insurance money to get a new roof.  Many shingles have come of in the windstorm.

Kyle wondered why that tree.  It was a fairly nice tree, a blue spruce.  It had a nice shape and wasn't half dead like 2-3 other trees we have.