I mentioned in my last post that the wind picked up the porch roof, blew it over our house (clearing the yucca tree, most of the chimney, and the Direct TV dish) and dropped it in the street in front last Friday. Didn’t even hit the mailbox.

Cody slept through the whole thing. But the neighbors across the street rang the bell to let him know what had happened. They all dragged it into the front yard until the insurance guy could get here.

He finally came yesterday so I took some photos since I was standing around in the front yard staring at it anyway.

The porch roof flew a long way in that wind. Our house is a lot deeper than it looks from the front. We have about 1600 square feet of heated space and a two car garage, not a mansion but a good size for two people. But it looks like a tiny cottage from the street and people are usually surprised by the size when they come inside.

When the roof took off it bent the exhaust pipe for the water heater a bit, knocked the cap off the chimney which hit edge of the roof a bit but no damage to the yucca tree or the satellite dish. Amazingly, I had a glass water jug sitting on my big worktable on the back porch that never even moved.

So the porch used to look like this:

Now we feel kind of naked and exposed when we look out the kitchen windows and the den glass doors during the day. Some of my chimes actually survived. I found the copper bird feeder in the street gutter the other day too.

My absolute favorite part of our porch was (and will be) the birds’ nests in the spring.

Some holes had gotten punched in the skylights a few years ago during all those hailstorms so we were going to replace it anyway. This saves us a little demolition trouble. I just keep wondering if anyone saw it take off into the sky.