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For us as well as all our dogs this past weekend. We had a strong storm with sheer winds that tore part of the railing and one column off our wrap around proch and sucked the sofit (sp?) out from underneath the porch as we watched out the window. Lost several trees around fence rows and along my woodline and then watched the above ground kennel our beagles were in get picked up flipped over and piledrived back on the ground about 30ft from where it was originally sitting. Had a barrel in the back corner that broke loose and slid down to the fence and basically had them in the barrel where they couldnt get out. It unnerved me when I got out there with it hailing lightning and such but hey I had to make sure they were OK. When I got out there there were 3 legs sticking through the fence just a shaking up a storm and of course I thought the worse but when I finally coaxed them out they were definately shaken but seemed very excited I was there too. Anyways after some kennel shuffling all is ok with us and all the hounds and after going in to work and seeing what damage the high winds caused others just up the road from us it didnt take long to realize what little damage we had and how lucky we were. Heres a couple pix from my phone. Compared to others around it is nothing major but it amazes me how my porch railing and kennel were destroyed and not a shingle one out of place.

Jeff

I have to compliment you on your beautiful home. Count your blesing. We are experiencing bad stoms down south also. I had my kennels moved about 300 ft years ago when a tornado came through but besides being upside down and the tin bent some the dogs were fine.

John

WOW.....

Glad to see noone was hurt........

Thanks for the compliment on the homestead. Kinda stinks that we just had it built a yr and a half ago and already have damage. Guess thats the price I pay for living out in the boonies up on a wide open ridge instead of a subdivision like we use to. 9yrs and never had nothing at our old residence. The way it looked on dopler it seemed that 2 different fronts were meeting from different directions because when it was from straight north the winds were high but not near as strong as when they started coming from the west too. Thats when it really gusted. Its one thing when the wind is blowing and the rain is falling at an angle or in "sheets" but its kinda wierd seeing it blow totally horizontal getting the sofit under the porch wet. I think it created a small vortex, whirlwind, whatever you want to call it under my porch by blowing straight from the left and at an angle from the right side and I think it basically sucked it out. The tree in front of the kennel is actually split in half with part of it on me and the other part laying across the fencerow to the neighboring farm at roughly a 4 o'clock angle. Yep after seeing roofs torn off homes, a metal roofing business that is no more, and the ambulance service garage all gone among others just a small piece from me I definately say I am lucky to only have what little damage I got. I have seen the flooding and such on local news from down in Texas, Okla, and such and my heart and prayers goes out to those folks.

Glad you survived the storm!

Now get ready for all the blood sucking, storm chasing....illegal parasites from Mexico to invade your town.

Best to you.

Sorry about the damage but I am glad your dogs weren't hurt.

I think I would consider anchor bolts for the kennel (drive a rebar and attach the kennels).

This just give the excuse I have been looking for with the wife for me to build a heck yeah kennel like I always wanted since we built our house and get rid of the chainlink kennels. Will most likely rebuild the above ground kennel to keep females in heat or possibly a whelping pen later down the road. But I have already got drawn out what I want and for whatever reason have her blessing to get a permanent structure in place for whatever is costs. I always knew she was attached to them dogs even though she would never in a million years admit it. LOL