I thought that I had managed to avoid damage from the storms Wednesday night. However, I just found out that the hail ripped holes in my upstairs window screens on the front side of the house. I was getting in my car to go get lunch, looked up, and saw what I initially thought was bird poo on the screens. However, the longer that I stared at the screens, the more I began to question whether it was, in fact, excrement. For a bird to leave that much of a mess, he had to either have irritable bowel syndrome or eaten some Ex-Lax laced bird seed.More curious than hungry, I got out of the car and went back inside to inspect the screens. Sure enough, the white spots that I saw weren't bird poo but holes in the screen. While I'm worried that potential buyers will be turned off by the holes, that the couple who put in the offer will now want me to replace the screens on top of giving them my shower curtains, and that the homeowners' association will threaten to fine me if I don't buy new ones (they'll have to threaten everyone else on my street as well), I'm not going to complain. At least the hail didn't break the house's windows or my car's windshield. My house is also still intact. The same can't be said for a lot of homes in the Atlanta area. Ten tornadoes have been confirmed so far--the one in Coweta County was a mile wide--and entire neighborhoods have been flattened. The picture above is all that remains of a church in Hancock County. The man who lived across the road was killed when the tornado picked up him and his mobile home. That makes me one of the lucky ones.
