Since this is my first ever blog, I have no idea if I posted the pictures right. I know these are not the type of pictures your used to seeing on NN but thought it would be easier to explain this way that I'm a little upset and instead of writing individual PM's, this was easier. I'll be back soon.
I tried to attach some pix of what I came home to when I got back from town yesterday. It must have been one hell of a Dust Devil or even a Micrburst that came through my patio while I was gone.
1) What I saw when I got out of the car. Notice post #1 on the left.
2) Post #1 is holding NOTHING! It's about 3" below the roof and about a foot to the right of where it used to be fastened under the main support beam. That corner of the roof is just hanging there.
3) The middle post was ripped out of the concrete floor and placed on top of a 2" piece of cinder block that I used to keep the motor for the fountain on.
4) The third post was snapped at the base and the down spout was pulled out and placed ON TOP of where it was connected.
I can't for the life of me figure out how the front and back of the roof structure (the back on one side is pulled about 2" away from where it was anchored to the house) was damaged like that and the furniture including a clay flower pot which was on the table didn't move an inch!
The insurance guy is coming Friday to try and screw me out of whatever he can, depreciation, etc. So I'm going to be pretty busy for a while and if you don't hear from me, this is why. I really needed this! That roof was built 16 years ago and has withstood gusts up to 60 mph!
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MIDDLE POST
Because Photobucket is such a lousy program, it was not possible to show pictures of the first and third posts.