It's hard to believe its only Wednesday...seems like its been SO MUCH longer since our world got flipped upside down. Things have continued to develop since the tornado hit our house. In my first post I said that our house was ok, well...not so much. Our amazing beyond words landlord, Lindsay, got a contractor and her insurance adjuster into the house (although not at the same time...hopefully that happened today). The contractor found water spots in the ceiling where the roof is leaking, meaning that the roof is damaged. He also found cracks in the ceiling, both hairline and places where its actually pulling apart, all from the torquing of the house in the wind as the tornado went by. All of that means there is more structural damage than we thought and that its now a whole new ballgame.
Initially we had just been waiting for the power to come back up to go home, which has still not happened and likely won't be til sometime next week. But with this new information we now are out of our house for several weeks. According to the contractor, once the power is finally restored to the house he'll need 2 weeks to fix the damage. In the meantime, we have to move EVERYTHING we own out of the house and store it until the house is fixed. Our insurance is going to pay for it, but we're still not sure how its all going to work. If we're going to have to pack it all up or if they will, etc. We are also praying that the damage they found is it. The contractor went through in the relative dark and won't be able to get a good look until, you guessed it, the power is back up.
In addition to the new house info, we also have new car info. Our car, which did have a garage on it now has a tree on it too. Excel (the power company) came through and started cutting trees out of our alley and managed to drop a giant tree on it. So our car that was also (from what we could tell) ok is now not ok. At the very least the back window is smashed in and its supposed to rain again soon. We, of course, can't get close to it safely to tarp it and actually haven't seen it since the tree crunched it. Our insurance adjuster is supposed to come look at it tomorrow and we're all assuming that it will be totaled. Which means we'll have to be on the hunt for a cheap car to replace the old one.
We're currently staying in an apartment at Bethel next to the Sem. We moved here Monday night and can stay here until June 15. After that, assuming we can't go home yet, our insurance will move us into a furnished apartment.
So that's the latest...more as it develops
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