Hurricane Damage

Although our house was relatively unscathed by Hurricane Matthew, the same cannot be said for Savannah and the Islands.  Thousands of trees came down and two thirds of Savannah lost power for several days, up to a week.  The islands flooded due to the record 12.56' tide and wind speeds reached 95mph on Tybee Island.  Mandatory evacuation orders weren't lifted until Sunday (the storm came through Friday night)  and schools stayed closed for the whole next week.  We were able to go into Savannah on Monday morning to check on our rental houses.  Most of our tenants evacuated and most of the houses escaped damage.  This is the first house we checked on.  We couldn't even drive up to it because of the massive tree across the road!

 

Thankfully, the tree fell between our house and the neighbor's.  It did take out the power lines and knock the transformer into the passenger seat of the car next door though.

 

The back house at this property just had a few little trees laid over in the yard.

 

This house had several limbs down, including one on the roof.  It had a small hole in the roof that was easily patched.

 

Our old house had a limb on it and a couple of small holes as well.

 

More limbs at this house.  One landed on the roof in the back but it was also laying on power lines, so we left that one for the professionals.

 

Can you find the house in this photo?  Once again, this tree fell without damaging either house.

 

Different view of the same tree. We let the professionals handle this one too. 

 

Nothing on the roof at this house, just this tree that fell harmlessly in the backyard.

 

After surveying damages on Monday we brought back supplies and started repairs on Tuesday.  Here's Matthew patching the roof of our old house.  I swept roofs while he repaired.

 

We were very lucky to have such minimal damages to our properties.  As you can see from this photo of the local fish mart, not everyone was so lucky.