Quite A Storm

I cannot remember a rain storm this troublesome other than that big one last year that flooded my condo house basement and caused damage to my property for the first time ever for me.

This rain storm started a day ago on Thursday, continued very strongly all day Friday and is supposed to storm a bit on Saturday as well. Fortunately, so far at least, our family has not seen or had any serious damage in our home from the rain in this area. Fingers crossed that we won't have any as the day progresses. 

I just wanted to show you some pictures that I took in this area to show you how big the winds were as the storm progressed. The first photos were taken several days ago when a team of people planted about 40 new trees for the house that was built. It seems as if the trees were designed to separate the 2 properties, one from each other. 

To be honest, I just took a few photographs of what was being undertaken when I first saw the changes being made. It really did not seem all that much of a job and was done quite well I thought. The new trees were put to last for a very long time between 2 properties. Or so I thought.

Nice weather though.  Blue sky and sunshine.

Then the storm hit! Here are the photographs that I took earlier this morning that shows a number of trees that just fell over because of the storm that hit:

To be honest about it I was quite shocked that such a thing should happen. Moreover, in the late afternoon, I saw a whole bunch more trees fall over and thought that I would take some photographs of that as well. Here are some of those photos:

I truly hope that the damage will not worsen even more between now and whenever the storm finally disappears.  I also hope that the trees can be put back into the ground and that they were not damaged because of the rain that has fallen. In other words, I am hoping that they don't have to be replaced.

Just one final thought that I was thinking about. I wonder if the owner of the property has to pay the tree company money to put the trees back again in the ground. It is a serious question to ask because I expect that a great deal of work will be needed to be done one more time to put all of the trees back in place.