More Storms!!!

Be careful what you pray for. On July 20th, when we said our bedtime prayers, Jason asked for Jesus to turn the "nunder" (thunder) on again (he loves storms). There were T-storms in the forecast, so I told him we probably would have one later. And we did. This one had it in for us. Right before midnight the wind picked up and started swirling and everything started shaking, so we grabbed Jason and hunkered down in our tornado spot. Still don't know if it was an actual tornado or not, but when we came out there was water on the carpet and dripping down the walls around the windows on the whole west side of our house. John went outside when everything died down a little to find our garage door smashed in two and the whole garage had shifted on the foundation so bad we couldn't shut the side door either. Jason slept with us the rest of the night cause he said the storm was "cool and scared." He woke up the next morning and informed me that "nunder gone, garage door crack in half," told me he needed breakfast, and then he was going to "fix garage and nindows (windows) with tape". When John and I chuckled, he looked at us reprovingly and very seriously added "and skoos (screws)".
Then John had to leave for work, but he couldn't get his Jeep out of the garage so he took mine and had to offroad a little to get around the tree that fell across our driveway (we lost a total of three trees). Meanwhile, our insurance company sent somebody out to dry up all the water and they ended up tearing up some of the carpet padding and ripping out several sections of ruined drywall. When they peeled back the carpet in our room, they found that apparently the old owners also had some trouble with water damage. There is a basketball-sized hole in our floor and more rotting out around it that someone had covered with sheet metal and relaid the carpet back over it. They had told us when we bought the house that there had been a "problem" with our floor at one point and that they had "fixed" it. Always clarify what "fixed" means!! So for the last three weeks we have been living with four chunks of wall missing, a rather scary hole in our floor, and no garage door to protect us if another storm rolls in.
So as you all can imagine we are loving this idiotic state and our deathtrap of a house more and more. Though we were the only ones in our neighborhood to sustain damage, there was enough damage in the surrounding area to keep the adjusters very busy, so we didn't hear back from the insurance company until yesterday. $15,000 worth of damage! $1200 deductible. Yikes!



Our garage door