My Place after the Tornado

This picture is a shot looking from my kitchen west at what was my office (on the other side of the door had been my garage).



This is the south side of the house. All the west windows were blown out. The irrigation pipe that is all over, was stacked on the far side of our shed. (The shed would have been not far from where I was standing to take the picture) We were amazed that none of the pipe ended up inside the house.



This is of the east/north corner of the house. One would think this part of the house is OK, but actually 1/2 of the porch's ceiling is on the floor (this was Keith's bedroom). The two bathroom's were the only two rooms that did not have part of their ceilings down. In the foreground one can see a huge tree that was uprooted.



This is our shed. On the other side was where the flood irrigation pipe was stacked up. (This is looking west).

My blazer was inside the shed to, but did not sustain much damage. It is in the body shop right now getting fixed. It should look like new when they are done. (Thank goodness we had one vehicle that worked- once we could get it out of the shed's door) Mike's work pick-up was inside the shed also, it was in pretty bad shape and lost its front windshield, but it got fixed right away.

This is from the day after the tornado and my neighbors were helping pack me up. The entrance way is on the right of my mom, my dining room table has the box that is being packed, and my living room is in the background. This was probably the picture that was put in the Hutchinson News on Sunday after the tornado.

IN THE NEWS:
"Denice Bevan boxes items salvaged from the home of Mike and Jana Lamb after a Friday evening tornado destroyed their home near Macksville, Kan. Authorities checking on a car stranded in a field Saturday morning found two people killed by a powerful storm that raked the state a day earlier with at least 17 tornadoes."




This is my poor car inside the shed. (For some reason Keith's car was inside the garage at the time of the tornado. Its main damage was losing its back windshield and little dents and pings) My car lost its front windshield. We didn't have insurance on it, so the rest of the scratches, dents and scrapes will have to just stay.

Keith's bedroom

irrigation pipe in the trees at my house