Hail Damage

As some of you may have heard....our area got a little thunderstorm excitement a few nights ago!! What started out as a little thunderstorm that was giving us a good lightening show quickly turned into something a whole lot more!! A little after midnight on Monday, it sounded like our roof was going to cave in as our neighborhood was pelted with golf ball to baseball size hail. It was SOOOO LOUD! Amazingly, Dane slept through the entire thing. Kenna just thought it was some really loud rain and said that the raindrops needed to quit stomping so loudly - and then went right back to sleep as soon as the hailing stopped. (Lucky us!) After the storm passed, we all went back to sleep. We ventured out the next morning to survey the damage..... Thankfully, our windows are double paned and the inside pane did not shatter....no water in the living room!! This picture was taken from inside our attic looking up at the attic vent....yes, that is sky you are seeing!

And our fence now looks like it is speckled. Those hail stones made some nice dings!

Thank goodness both of our cars were in the garage so they survived without any problems. The word is that, not only are we are going to have to make the obvious repairs (what you see in the pictures), but we are also going to have to replace our entire roof and gutter system - they are shot! I didn't ask Daniel to take a picture of those while he was up checking everything out - I didn't this post to include anything about a fall from the roof!! Daniel and Nathan got up there yesterday and got most everything patched up so we should be okay if it rains. The insurance people have already said they are ready to pay to get everything fixed as soon as we get an estimate from the roofer on Friday. That is definitely a blessing!

Now the question becomes - do you think our home owner's insurance will pay to replace my $20 lawn chair from Target that I use when I lay out in the sun? :)