Who, me???: Tornado

One thing that strikes me as so bizarre is how I can look, from one position half a mile away, and look straight through to so many different areas. Places I didn't realize were that close to each other. Because there are no trees now. Everything used to be enclosed in different areas and sectioned off by trees. I think there's a good reason they named this area "Forestdale". There are so many trees here. Well, less now. Driveways, parking lots, and roads... All that stuff disappeared under trees. Trees and other debris from all the structures that were destroyed. So everyone went back and just pretty much had to park out on the main highway somewhere and hike it into the the neighborhoods.

I haven't been to the more devastated areas yet, just my street and the adjacent neighborhoods. These are a few pics that I took the two days after the tornado.

This was the tree that fell on me. It's one of the big trees in Cosette's dad's yard. Both of the trees fell, but neither of them went towards his house, both went the other way. Both trees were very old, nice trees. I went out right after the tornado passed, saw it was down and started climbing on it. Don't ask me why. I just like to climb stuff. I may have been looking for terrified squirrels. Anyway, I snapped out of it and remembered that the tree had JUST been torn from the ground and fallen a mere minute ago, and could fall more if it felt like it cause it wasn't quite all the way down and I wouldn't be able to lift any part of it to get it off of me if it did. So I gingerly extracted myself from this fallen tree. Filed it away under 'Tornado Tomfoolery'...

I thought at first that roof belonged to the house on the corner in front of it, but when I walked closer noted it was too small for that one. Roof came from someplace else.

At first no one could really get in except on foot. Trees were covering most of the roads, they were too large to be moved by hands.

This tree was blocking one of the roads out for us. I remember crawling through this at some point. That's when I rescued that baby squirrel and lost my sister's shirt. (sorry, sis!)

Um, you'd need before/after ref for this one. I just took this pic because it was strange to me because I know what it looked like before. Normally, from where I was standing, you'd never see any of that sky or those structures on the other side of the hill, you'd only see trees.