Then there was a crashing blast of lightning as it struck the palm tree at site 1633 and we watched as the tree burst into flames. By the time we got a camera focused, most of the big flames had gone out and it just continued to smolder. It didn't look like we needed the fire department as there were no nearby structures but we called the front gate anyway. It was such a loud crash that it set off our car alarm three blocks away.
Neil Jeffers came to investigate and stayed on site to make sure the flames went out. Thank you, Neil for being so safety conscious.
As soon as the rain let up, we started our inspection tour (in our very soggy golf cart!)
As we drove around, we met with quite a few fellow housewatch people who were on duty. Yes, there was some damage with the storm. Site 1535.
I'm going to tease Don and Deana Taylor because their roof landed right along side their house. When we lost our roof two years ago, it traveled three blocks away before landing.
Sun screens were quite scattered. We at least cleared them off the street.
Whoops....I don't think they'll be placing the new house here today.
Ouch! Plenty of damage at site 699 and 702.
We chatted with two different homeowners who reported that their roof started leaking due to the water backing up from the gutters. I'm glad we had our gutters cleaned yesterday!!
