Almost 2 Months

In two months we have gone from this

to this...

 pretty much the same progress were ever you look. Everything was pretty well cleared away within the first day and for sure with in that first week. People are starting to repair businesses and houses. Some have come down while others only had shingles replaced. It really depends on what your insurance company wants to do for you and how hard you push to get what you are needing.

For us its been a long two months.  At this point we have hired a lawyer because the damages on our house total at the very least 75,000. But the insurance company seems to think 39,000 will get the job done. Ha. We have learned alot about insurance companies in the past two months as well as the legal system that will help you get what you need because they will not give it to you freely. Sad FACT. I feel bad for all those people only redoing their roofs. Their house have so much more damage then that! You cant be two street or in some cases 4 streets away from an EF3 tornado and only have damage to your roof.

After extensive searching to our house our main problems are
1. Had the tornado lasted 5 seconds more we would have no roof. There is a crack along the whole roof were it was being lifted off the house and you can see light from outside in the attic.
2. Most of them beams in the attic are cracked or down
3. Our North Wall bends in and out in other words our house was twisted.

But you know the insurance company says there is no way to prove that is because of the tornado...okay...?!?!

Enter our lawyer

we hope to have this taken care of within the next 4 to 6 weeks and I will be very happy to put it all in the past.

Some pics of the way things look around our area of town:

 front of our house

 heading south on what was the "loop" back in my high school days

 heading north on the "loop"

 across the street from what was Bells

 The Lot that was Bells

Facing East from what was Bells you can see the school a few blocks away