Mother Nature kicked our butt

[vt_maverick]

Wow sorry to hear about this Tom! But at least you have that street view you always wanted.

[Scott Harness]

Glad you're OK!
We had the hail storm of the century a few weeks ago(baseball size)
Destroyed(no joking) everything that wasn't covered.Fist sized holes in everything.Even the ground!! The golf course was closed because of all the holes in it.VX was covered Whew!!

[tom4bren]

Thanks all.

Loss of that purple plum was heartbreaking.

Meeting with the insurance adjuster tomorrow morning. I'll give an update after.

Just got a PM from Fuzzy. He saw me on one of my runs to the dump with a trailer full of tree parts. Hafta meet up with him before he moves.

[tom4bren]

This is what the back yard looked like:

Haven't heard back from the adjuster yet.

[jeeperkate]

Sorry to hear. Good luck with the clean up!

[tom4bren]

Sorry to hear. Good luck with the clean up!

THX

Clean up is complete (except for stump removal). Just waiting on insurance adjuster's findings to start replacing damaged items. Got an estimate from the pool company yesterday - $2K to replace pool liner & pump.

In 2012, Kate just watered the lawn ... nothing more.

[tom4bren]

The front yard was just looking too nekkid without trees so we dressed her up a little yesterday.

We replaced the Purple Plum with a ... you guessed it ... another Purple Plum.

We replaced the SweetGum tree with a white Crape Myrtle. Yay! No more raking up prickly balls.

We replaced the Scotch Broom (smooshed by the falling SweetGum) with an Evergreen of some variety that has been sculpted sorta Poodle-esc. It sounds funny but it looks really cool. It even gets some blue colored berries on it (right now they are green but it'll look real nice when they turn).

We'll replace the Pine Tree that toppled over with a Silver Spruce but can't do that until September when the weather isn't quite so harsh.

5 hours of chiseling holes into VA clay. I broke one of my shovels on that stuff (God laughed when he invented it). I was starting to wonder if the fun was ever gonna end.

Still waiting for the insurance settlement for the personal property items so we haven't started fixin up the back deck yet.