The Fall Out from Hanna

Hanna made land fall early in the morning, and we started hearing the wind blowing around 5:30-6:00am here in MHC. We managed to get out of bed around 6:45am and looked out the windows to check things out and we saw lots of wind but strangely no rain. Checking the weather channel and our local news station and see that is rain is west of us (more towards Goldsboro/Raleigh) but we were getting gusts of nearly 60mph. After Lilly woke up around 7:30am we call my folks to make sure they were ok....and sure enough they had a story. The large Oak tree they had near the road had up rooted and landed on the house (causing some roof damage) and broke a window and window frame. After the wind subsided we headed over to check things out for ourselves, and boy was it a mess. You can see in the photos above (and the video) that professional help is needed to clean everything up, luckily there was a tree removal company cruising around and stopped off to see in my folks wanted his help. I wanted to get a picture of me standing on top of the tree before it was removed, so we forged through the brush to try and get a photo. BUT we found a very large yellow-jackets nest instead. My Dad was the only one to get stung, and we sent Fitz out to get some commercial grade bee spray. I think the bees have been annihilated, and when we left for home the tree guy was back to help. All in all we weathered the storm just fine, and the only real damage in the whole town was my folks house so they will be on the 6 o-clock news this evening, and perhaps in the paper tomorrow. Such celebrities!!