Yes, it’s less scary when you are 2,000 miles away. We were vacationing in Seattle when the storms and tornadoes hit our southern states causing extreme damage and many deaths. We who live in Knox County were lucky to just have somewhat minor damage. Many broken trees, windows, blown off siding, etc. Hail (the size of golf balls) damaged some of the wood trim on our home, ripped through 10 of our window screens, shredded our canopy, tore off rain gutter parts, pulled the post away from our fence and other minor stuff. When we think of what could have happened, we feel lucky. Our prayers and thoughts are with those who were less fortunate. Since we were away our children checked on our house and reported the damage and checked for leaks inside. We’re all waiting for insurance contractors to check our roofs. Many will need replacing. Tomorrow (Sat.) members of our ward, including my husband and sons-in-law will travel to Chattanooga, TN to help with the clean up there. They were hit harder than we were. I’m borrowing pictures my daughters took of the hail so you’ll have a visual of the hail. 
Lisa holds hail in her hand with the gathered hail on her decking in the background.
Carter, Jared, & Claire add ping pong balls to show comparison - Lori holds hail from her house.
DAMAGE TO OUR HOME (NOT COUNTING THE ROOF)
This was a beautiful Hosta plant before we left town; now it's mostly torn to shreds.
It's hard to tell, but if you look closely, you'll see many hole in the screens. We will be replacing 10 window screens and we haven't checked the side windows yet. Guess we should do that.
2 comments:
Wow, these pictures are amazing. I'm so glad the damage wasn't more severe. It's always a blessing to know you weren't hit harder, yet, damage done by mother nature that is costly is always hard. What a blessing no one was hurt. Was there damage to any of your other family members that are close by? So sorry.
Yikes! That tent damage looks even more dramatic in person!
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