Barn Charm #61Before and After Huge Storm of Summer of 2012

This barn belongs to a high school classmate of my husband's and mine.

Well, it's actually his wife's third generation family farm.

Here is a good view of the old homestead that set to the right of the barn.

This particular 'set' refers to past tense.

(The verb goes present-set, past-set, past participle-have set).

Here are two fairly close photos of both structures

taken in early summer two years ago.

Now here is that same barn after the horrendous storm

that blew into Ohio and other states June 29th, 2012,

leaving many without  power for anywhere from one day to two weeks.

This is a shot taken from my car after the storm

and my first ride down to Seneca Lake

to take note of what had been damaged.

As you can see, the old homestead is no more.

The storm destroyed it.

You used to not be able to see the barn from this angle

because of the house.

Now a camera has a clear shot.

When my husband last talked to the guy

back in July,

they were considering tearing the barn down.

As of late August, it was still there.

The house and chimney you see in the distance to the right,

in the third photo up,

was the second home.

It is no longer lived in either.

They live in a brick ranch house built way off to the left

of the barn, outbuildings, and homestead.

(I don't have a photo of it--it is okay, but nothing special.)

Here is what you saw before June 29, 2012 from the road

 looking up the farm's lane.

I have featured this photo twice before for different reasons.

This is a long post, but I thought the house needed to be 'mourned' also, 

not just the extremely damaged barn. 

For more barns,

click on Barn Charm and go to Tricia's place.

Horrendous storm hit our area

The worse storm this area has seen in many, many years

hit Friday night.

We lost power around 6 PM Friday and did not regain it

until today, Sunday, at 8 PM.

Hot, hot, hot!

We were fortunate in that no around here was hurt

and most of the property damage in Barnesville were trees.

Above is a photo of the root ball of an enormous tree

that fell smack dab INBETWEEN two homes

that share property lines with my sister-in-law.

(Thus the photo.)

However, neighboring Cambridge was not so lucky.

A hundred plus year old Presbyterian church is now

a pile of rubble.

Some warehouses suffered major damage,

buildings lost roofs, windows were blown out,

and cars were overturned.

Multiple sightings of a funnel cloud occurred

right before the folks took cover.

However, no one called it in to the weather center

and it was not tracked;

therefore, according to the head weather honchos

a tornado did not tear a line of destruction through Cambridge.

Try telling that to the folks who saw it coming at them!

My son, his kids, their mom, his girlfriend, my ex and his wife, etc.

are all fine.

My son and girlfriend were actually in Florida when it hit

and arrived home on Saturday.

His neighborhood and his dad's did not lose power,

although other parts of Cambridge did.

As of this morning's paper, only one person died

and that was west of Cambridge in a town called Chandersville.

A barn collapsed while a woman was still in it.

Her husband escaped.

People were shaken up

and some were mighty uncomfortable for a few days,

but it could have been so much worse.

Needless to say, I've been offline for most of three days.

But I will catch up soon.