More Storm Damage

The last few weeks have been spent cleaning up debris and repairing damage from the biggest storm to hit our area in recent history. We estimate the damage to our property to be somewhere around $15,000; the remainder of the add-on on the back of the building was destroyed, the gates were blown off of the new fence, and the old fence was partially blown down. It took two weeks to get the yard ready for dogs again, and we still have a lot of work to do. We're having a difficult time getting a contractor to come to the property and give us an estimate of the repair costs; contractors don't want to make the effort because they know we plan to do the work ourselves. We're hoping to get someone here soon, so we can finish filing our insurance claim.

Fortunately the main building was not seriously damaged, but it will still take some time to recover from this one. Wind gusts reached 120 miles per hour -- that's the force of a category three hurricane. We're taking these storms very seriously, and whatever we build, we're building to stand up to the wind, even though people are calling this a 'hundred year storm'. We're trying to find a way to turn this negative into a positive; now, instead of trying to retrofit the add-on on the back of the building, we can build a new wing (when funds permit) to our ideal specifications. Now that the damage has almost all been repaired, we're looking forward to doing some new construction.

Posted on December 28, 2007 | Link