Friday evening we had a storm come through Omaha that featured Hurricane strength winds. It was a very brief but intense storm. We had leaves and branches and one medium-large size tree limb knocked down in our yard, but nothing severe. Maurice wasn't so lucky.
He had several large tree limbs from his silver maple fall in his yard and a giant one land on his house, putting a hole in the roof. Mom was in town, so she and I went over Saturday morning to help clean up.
When we got there, Maurice was already cutting away with his little chainsaw. He tried to go buy a larger one at Menards that morning, but they were already sold out of all but the professional grade chain saws by 9 am.
Luckily the neighbors son, Bob stopped by and offered to give us a hand. He had a nice Stihl chainsaw that was able to cut up the largest logs for us. We were really lucky that Bob helped out.-----------------------
Monday update:
Below are before and after photos of a house from West Omaha owned by the sister of a co-worker of mine. It was only a couple of years old. I don't think they build houses like they used to.
