Two Big storms = some damage

Each time my native Oklahoma got hammered by severe storms and tornados, we got hit with the remnants a day later.

The first one knocked down several trees - this walnut fell from paddock #1 over the fence into the orchard, tearing down a power line.

Had to wait a day for the electric company to come repair.

Didn't take them long to get it fixed...

...after which K7 was able to safely cut up the tree...

                         
                                   ...then load up the truck, and...

                                                    
                                                               ...haul it to another burn pile.

Back to that first storm. In addition to the walnut, we had several trees south of the stream fall. This giant dirt clod came out of the south bank of stream...

...and contained four trees, two of which were good sized red oaks.

Plus this small walnut fell over the road along stream...

...and another large red oak fell onto the road, totally blocking it. My neighbors came to the rescue and cleared the road in minutes.

K7 and K6 had to replace three roof panels on the hay shed. I sent K2 out later to put a lot more screws in to really hold it in place.

The second storm dropped this big walnut onto the county road. "S" called me at 6:21 A.M. to ask for help cutting a path through it so she could get to the hospital. The other two roads out of our farm were flooded and impassable. K7 was able to cut this escape tunnel, and she zipped through faster than I could get the camera ready for the memorable pic.

I then rounded up several neighbors and we had an early morning "block party" clearing the road in a drizzling rain.

Then we went home to find our fence down again due to heavy flooding, and some heifers in the wrong field. The boys got soaked wading across the water filled pasture, but were successful rounding up the escapees. Pretty exciting times.