Carport Turmoil

There is never a dull moment around here. Keeps life interesting, entertaining and humbling. A couple weeks ago my best friend and her kids came for a visit from Wyoming. It was so nice to see her and the munchkins-they grow up way to fast! I'm glad that they came when they did as Bryan and the girl's were getting ready to head to Maine for a week; I was excited for them to go but at the same time I didn't want them to leave. The thought of being completely alone for a whole week was scary!!! More on that later.
Anyhow, as I said earlier, there is never a dull moment and that has proven to be very true when Whitney comes to visit. A couple years ago, her son Connor ate some Black Locust seeds which we found out are very toxic-he's ok; then last year Whitney made a quick trip up to Oregon to see her sister and I kept the kids. Connor cut his big toe on the deck-it wasn't pretty. So this year didn't want to be left out, right!?
It was a lovely Sunday on July 31st. We had a missionary and his family that came to visit and speak at church that morning and was preaching again that evening. We were hosting fellowship at our house that night after the evening service. When we went to church that evening the weather was perfect; a few clouds in the distance but nothing that looked to threatening-no wind either. Well, that changed dramatically all within an hour!!! The wind was horrible, scary and quite impressive by the time church was done. It was trying to rain too.
We came home as soon as church was done to feed the critters and get ready for fellowship. When I pulled into the driveway I noticed that the front of our carport was no longer 'in' the ground!! Whitney's car was parked next to it. We had to move her car!!! We ran in to get the keys and grab a jacket-it was raining and quite cool. I ran back out to see that the wind had picked up the carport again-concrete and all-and then I heard a noise that was dreading to see what caused it! Her car was now under a corner of the carport!!!!
Thankfully, our neighbor had seen what was going on and he came racing over plus I had made a few desperate phone calls. We got our bobcat out and was able to lift the rubble from her car enough to drive it out from under it before more damage was done. When Bryan got there, he took control of the bobcat and continued to bring the rest of the mangled mess down before the wind continued to scatter it.

Whitney's car was where Connor is standing.

This is where the concrete post came to rest after it had dented the roof a couple times and scratched the paint up the driver's side door and all over the roof.

The dent on the passenger side of the roof.

Thankfully, no one was hurt and we were able to get the windshield replaced a couple days later and the car is drivable. This did change her plans on leaving from Wednesday to Friday which didn't hurt my feelings at all, however, it was never my plan to break the car to get her to stay longer. LOL!!