A Picture Update

This is what greeted us as we arrived on our street.

Our lake was overflowing it's banks and over the road.

This is the powerline that is down about 3 houses down the street from us. It is still down today. There are power lines like this one everywhere.

This is a picture of our backyard. I had just mowed the yard the day before we left. You can't see all of the detail in the picture, but our entire yard was coated with sticks, limbs, and leaves.

Here is the limb that pierced our roof.

Here is the hole with the stick removed.

This is a picture from a service project we attended today. This poor family had a huge pine tree that was growing in their backyard fall over their house. The guy in the blue shirt up there on the tree is my husband who almost gave me a heart attack.

Here is Steven after he cleared more of the limbs. The tree would bounce as the weight on it was lifted by cutting the limbs of of it. He did have a harness on though, and the guys had a good prayer before they got started.

One more of Steven in the tree. Today he earned himself the nickname "The Squirrel".

Once all of the limbs that were hanging over the front of the house were cut the tree was tied up to 2 separate winches to raise it back up and off the roof.

This is a picture from the back of the house.

This is the tree after it was raised up.

One of the other guys is cutting the tree to drop it into a good place.

Here is the tree after it was taken down. Those guys did an awesome job! It was amazing to watch. The guys loaded up and went to another house and cut down yet another tree. The second one was not nearly as tricky. I'm tagging along tomorrow just to watch them work again.