Our First Front Yard View

View from Neigbbors Backyard Toward our House

View Toward Garage/Workshop

View of Pine Tree Which Caused Roof Damage

Closer View of Tree Top

View of Roof From Inside Attic

Holes in Roof After Tree Removed

Largest Hole in Roof

View from Our Patio on 03 September

Workshop Damage

What Might Have Been

Our Neighbor's Front Yard

Our Neighbor's House

Backyard View 06 September

Backyard View 09 September

Debris Pile 1 - 09 September

Debris Pile 2 - 09 September

Debris Pile 1 - 11 September

Debris Pile 2 - 11 September

13 September Backyard View

Debris Pile 1 - 15 September

Debris Pile 2 - September 15

Debris Pile from Across the Street

Debris Pile in Cul de Sac - 15 September

Neighborhood House

20 September First Debris Removal

Lifting Branches

Trunk Sections

Debris Pile 2 Goes Also

Yeah - The Entire Pile Left Today

Whoops - There Goes the Cable

Whoops - This Won't Fit

What we saw on 3 September when we arrived at home

The pink you see through the hole is insulation in our attic.

The pine tree trunk going out of the top of the frame is the tree on our roof. If you look carefully just right of center you can see our bright green bird feeder still standing despite 3 trees fallen all around it.

The corner of the detached garage/workshop which was hit by a pine tree.

This shows our motorhome parked in its usual place. The pine tree which hit the workshop would have also hit our motorhome if we had been at home when Katrina came to call.

They were not so fortunate as the top of the tree is still in their roof and branches into their family room.

Some cleanup has already taken place.

You can now see more of our backyard.

So this is where all the pine debris has gone.

Not 1 but 2 piles.

It just keeps growing.

And, so does this one.

View after the "professionals" removed remaining trees and pulled leaner stumps out.

Not much left to add to the pile.

Ditto for this one.

Our debris piles look like molehills compared to this neighbor's debris pile. I also know that they are not yet finished removing downed trees.

Pre-Katrina this was a typical cul de sac where even a school bus could turn around. Not so now.

Not the worst of damage but sporting the contemporary "blue roof" found throughout the neighborhood.

The cavalry arrived on 20 September in the form of log truck drivers from Maine. They told us that they had their log trucks modified by adding cargo containers to replace the normal stakes along the side of the truck.

I would guess that it took us a half dozen trips dragging this single pick-up to the street.

These trunk sections were put at the road side by one of the groups we hired to remove trees. We couldn't even lift one of these.

We were unaware at the time that, in his zeal to help us clean up the debris in our yard, our cable (for TV and internet connection) was being snagged as this pile was being removed.

We unwittingly proved beyond doubt that cable signals cannot travel across an air gap. Satellite may, radio may, but cable absolutely does not.

Occasionally they found entire trunks in the debris piles. If they could not fit it into their truck, they gently placed it back on the ground for further work (cut it tinto smaller pieces).