Lake Cleanup

tornado  The lake made the local news.  It was thought to be a microburst, but ended up being an F-1 tornado. 

Yesterday we were finally allowed to get to the boathouse to see what damage there was.  Everything on this side of the lake is a total mess and sad to see all these huge trees down.

Dr. Rogers on one side of us lost his dock.

This is standing on the top step down to our boathouse, the lines are down in our parking space and we can now see our neighbors up on the hill.

This neighbor up on the hill saw the tornado come across the water.  They lost dozens of trees and now have a full view of the lake which they did not have before.  

Our parking space.

Dr. Rogers is the other house above us on the hill.  They lost at least a dozen huge old oak trees.

I was talking to the DOT workers clearing the road.  Evidently the tornado never touched down.  If it had, there would have been no houses or boathouses over here, so we got lucky.

Meanwhile, at Kelly's, a crane was brought in to lift the tree off the Toymaker's Cottage.  Her area of Tryon was hit hard, massive amount of trees lost.

The humidity here has been so thick you can see it.  Today is the first day it has lifted and the air is a bit dryer.

Looking forward to the weekend.  Saturday I am bartender at a fundraiser photo contest for Paws, Prayers and Promises, a rescue run by two friends that own the consignment shop in town.  Then Sunday is a trip to the Smokey Mountains to finally meet my friends Chantal and Carol.  Chantal is driving down from Knoxville with her mom and Carol is coming from Elk Creek, Virginia.  We were planning on a weekend camping trip with several other girls, but could not get it together in time, so maybe this spring!