I'm glad that wasn't us!

[elfs]

A neighbor's house.
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Man, sometimes life reminds you just how lucky you are. Like, when you drive out of your neighborhood and see that one of the people around the corner from you lost everything in the windstorm two weeks ago. We have very large trees behind our property, and any one of them could have done much more damage to our fragile shell than what you see in this photograph. Fortunately, that seems to be the worst damage in the neighborhood; everyone else appears to have weathered it well. I have to replace a few shingles on the roof and clean my driveway, whoop-de-do.