We had a hellacious windstorm last night. Worse, I think, than the storm we had in September because of Ike. That was one steady strong wind...sure, it took down a tree and I was without power for almost exactly a week, but a lot of things stayed up!
This time it was GUST......nothing....GUST GUST GUST GUST.....nothing.....GUST GUST GUST.....nothing and so on. I was finally drifting off to sleep as the house shook (I kid you not), and all of a sudden I hear CRAAAAAACCCCCCCK and then clonk clonk clonk clonk. Didn't take me long to figure out I was listening to the sounds of bricks rolling/sliding down my slate roof.
When I surveyed the damage this morning I found that about half the chimney appears to have crumbled down. The cap was about 50 feet away from the house and was embedded into the ground by a good 8-9 inches. Glad no one was standing in front of it--that sucker flew!
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Ack! How's the roof?
Scare! Glad no one was hurt.
Goodness! Was it a working chimney? Are you able to let it go for a bit or do you need to repair/replace it right away?
Glad that's all that happened, and nobody (2-legged or 4) were hurt
Oh NO! Hopefully it's covered under your insurance, and hopefully your roof is OK! Very glad to hear that no one was hurt though.
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