Incredible Wind Storm

On Thursday, April 8, very high winds whipped through Yakima. The house right next door to Susan's is currently for sale and is unoccupied. The previous owner had one of those large canvas carports right next to the fence between his yard and Susan's. This cover was large enough to put a 50-foot motor home inside. As you can see, the wind was strong enough to pick up the cover and carry it over the fence and into the trees in our backyard. Thank goodness the trees were there because they stopped the cover from reaching the house.

Susan called the real estate company that is selling the home and we were very surprised that a crew showed up that same evening. It might have had something to do with the fact that Susan told them the fence was in jeopardy of collapsing under the weight, which was true.

All the trees, fence and shrubs actually survived and the cover did not fall the rest of the way into our yard before they got it back on the other side of the fence.

We spent the next two days picking up small pieces of parts from the cover out of the yard, trying to get all of them before Tillie could find them. She will eat anything!