water damage is our middle name

We have been having some pretty amazing storms lately.  Tuesday night a strong wind/rain storm hit our area and knocked off our chimney.  I was at home and heard a loud bang and scraping sound.  I opened the blinds, thinking it was our patio furniture blowing off our deck.  As I looked outside I realized how severe the winds looked and thought maybe I should go to the basement, momentarily forgetting that I had not figured out what had made that loud noise.  A few moments later my neighbor called and asked if I was home?  I knew something was wrong and asked "what happened to my house?!"  She said "your chimney is in your side yard".  Of course it is.  The attic upstairs now had a gaping hole and it was raining in our house.  Our good friend Scott Rainey came over right away and spent the next few hours patching up our hole. (David was recovering from knee surgery)  We had the Cruze kids staying with us for a few days, so with no power, a big storm and a chimney blown off the house we had a houseful of nervous kids!  Allie saved us and kept everyone in her room and played church music and played games with them to keep them calm.  (the next morning Allie was getting her wisdom teeth out so she had her own reason to be anxious/nervous)

So we get to process yet another claim with insurance and pay another deductible and deal with more headaches.  I guess the good news is we had not had our roof or  gutters fixed from the hail storm yet.