Super Dave's house hit by tornado last night

[barb_arah]

Take care Dave!  We'll be thinking of you!

[tug296]

Sorry to hear about your house Dave, good luck with the rebuild.

[twilkinson3]

Ditto what Alexa said Dave - I'm not too far away North on Milwaukee - we just got to watch the fireworks ....

[Super Dave]

Finally got over to the CCS board.   

Yeah, we got one finally.  Grew up and lived in Omaha for twenty six years, and we missed one of the worst tornado events ever, the one in 1975... 


Anyway, yeah, we got hit.  Our house damage is listed as "major", but we won't have to have our house leveled.  My trailer left the driveway and tumbled down a few lots.  We'll need new carpeting, new roofing, new siding, new windows, maybe a whole new garage as it got beat very hard.  The X took $7k in damage, wife's car was good in the garage.  Amy was on TV today...LOL!  We've been all over too.  American Family has been great, and I'm not generally a fan of insurance companies.  We did some other things with them too, but I'll have to leave that for another time.

We've got a dumpster and a big box now.  Throwing stuff away, packing things away.  We'll probably be out of the house for 90 days or so during the fixes. 

The family is all good.  My oldest was at a friends.  Just three of us at home.  Sirens didn't work...and that's a story all it's own.    

Does it sound like a freight train?  To me?  Well, in Omaha, there were lots of big, coal pulling freight trains coming from Wyoming.  Big power.  To me, the tornado sounded different, but it had the big power sound regardless that was enough for me to stand up and say, "Get in the basement, now."  Big change in air pressure, very different from an airplane ride, and then the sound of a lot of wind then a mass of trees, fences, and other housing debris hitting our house.  Kind of sounded like someone throwing about ten bowling balls around in a small room above you.

All happened Monday around 920PM.  House was secured, more or less, Tuesday night, and we got power back Wednesday.  Staying in Brookfield now, but we'll be moving to Oconomowoc for our second phase (more space), and then someplace else, either an apartment or rental house (seems to be mortgage companies that are eager to rent their homes up for sale). 

Was a real interesting 90 seconds that has a lot of work attached to it. 

I suppose we needed new carpet anyway after thirteen years here.   

[skiandclimb]

Thank God your family is ok, Dave. Good to see you posting up! Pics? 

[Super Dave]

Thank God your family is ok, Dave. Good to see you posting up! Pics? 

Thanks!

Got pics, but I think they are too big to post up...

[gearhead]

Glad to hear you and your family are O.K.!!

[HAWK]

Good to hear you and family are doing OK, and good to see you posting up, sure sign that you are getting on top of things.

I hope everything works out well in the end. Hopefully not too many irreplaceables lost.

[Garywc]

Glad you and your family are ok.
wish i was able to help you out but its kinda hard to do from 1500 miles away but if you think of something let me know i will do my best to help

[Super Dave]

Thanks, guys!

Not bad on the irreplaceable stuff.  Could have been a whole lot worse for us. 

[SV88]

Wow I was quite concerned about you in Eagle.  We got hit fairly hard in Watertown.  The plant was flooded next morning but we obviously did not see anything like the damage you experienced.  Glad you and the family are safe & sound!!

[funsizeracing]

Wow, that's nuts! Glad everyone is ok and your good spirits don't seem to damaged.