Yesterday afternoon around 3pm, Isabel decided that we needed a tree
> in our house. Mom was watching the news on her battery TV, dad just
> had laid down for a nap, and I was watching out the back sliding glass
> door, and our biggest oak tree (of course) fell over the house. It
> crushed the center beam and seated itself in the attic. There's also
> a hole in mom's bathroom-if you are in her br, and look out her
> window, you can see up the trunk, then above the window is the hole
> where it impacted against that edge of the house before crashing
> through the roof. It split when it hit the roof, and the top half of
> the tree is hanging down in front of my sister's window. My dad and I
> had to bail water out of buckets in the attic every 30 minutes
> yesterday for a long time, til the rain stopped. We no doubt have
> squirrels in there now:). The rip in the roof is about ten feet on
> either side of the middle. The insurance people are coming out this
> afternoon to take the tree out. Then, to get a new roof! It's such a
> mess, inside the house and out, lots of trees down in the
> neighborhood, had one laying in the road last night, but when the
> Firetruck/men came to make sure we were alright, they took care of the
> tree in the road. Anyways, Just wanted to let you know I was safe-I
> hate using Google to post but had to do it this one time;) I hope
> everyone else made it ok with minimal damages. We are very used to
> hurricanes in eastern NC, but this was our first (hopefully last)
> tree. Unfortunately, last I heard, there has been a death each in NC,
> VA, and Maryland. That means that the name Isabel is retired from
> future use to name a 'cane. Anyways, that's about it for that! I
> should be back regularly once we get moved to the new store, less than
> a month to go!!!
>
> Miss you all, and check out these pics of the tree in our house!
>formatting link> Nikki