[Lowfer] Blizzard AAR

[Bob Raide]

All the best to you and your family-power and plywood covering will help  73-Bob, XEB-XGR/6
 > Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:26:33 -0500
> From: jhjesse at verizon.net
> To: lowfer at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Lowfer] Blizzard AAR
> 
> First, thanks for all the well wishes from everyone.
> 
> The first thing I did was to hire my own private insurance adjuster.  
> He's due here any minute.  He had a disaster guy come over first thing 
> yesterday to close up the hole.  He cut the branch in the room.  I had 
> put a tarp over it but part of the tree was in the room and I couldn't 
> keep all the snow out.  It's now sealed with plywood.
> The tree was a huge white pine.  It was made up of 4 trunks.  2 broke 
> away.  One is still on the house.  The other slid down the side of the 
> house and crushed my daughter's car.  There is structural damage to the 
> house according to the disaster repair guy that came over.  The part of 
> the tree still on the house will have to be removed by a boom truck or 
> crane.  Unknown what damage the roof has sustained.  And a wall is buckled.
> 
> My adjuster just left.  An engineer is going to be called in.  And we're 
> on a waiting list for tree service.
> Needless to say, my antennas took a beating.  The big loops and Burhan 
> are gone. I still have a "mini-whip" and my sloping dipole seems OK.
> 
> Our power came back on this morning.
> I worked today and it was super busy.  The beach area in Manomet looks 
> like a bomb went off.  We were doing lots of well-being checks on the 
> elderly.  Some went to the shelter, others opted to stick it out, a few 
> went to the ER for exposure.
> 
> All in all, we were very lucky.  Thank God.  No one was hurt.  The 
> damage can be repaired.  Things could have been a lot worse.
> 
> I hope everyone else is OK.
> 
> Jon WS1K
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