ok ... no this isn't a picture of my house... BUT... the very tall persimmon tree growing in my front yard fell on my house today....

I was sitting in my living room after work... looking out into the yard though the storm door... when the wind picked up all of a sudden...

The comment about the wind had just barely left my lips when I heard a huge crack... and to my surprise... the tree started falling ... falling ... falling...(seemed like an eternity but all in all it took only moments to occur) and then came crashing down onto my roof over the garage. My kids ran towards the back of the house screaming and shouting "OH MY GOSH!!!" I think the 3 yr old cussed... (his favorite thing to say is "What tha hell?"...LOL)

I got up and went to the porch... praying the whole 7 steps it took... "please, Lord, not the car... please!"

The tree missed my car by INCHES!!! I breathed a sigh of relief... and went to assess the damage visually... Yes... some damage occurred... ok... now to call my insurance agent and figure out how to file a claim...

ok... you would know that all this happened after 5 pm and nobody was in the office... but I was able to get the number to the claims department... which was also closed until 8 am tomorrow. I'm thinking..."Stuff doesn't happen between the hours of 8 and 5... EMERGENCIES are REAL!!!"
It dawns on my to take pictures... but its now too dark to do so... so I gotta wait till in the morning...

I swear...with the week I'm having... this is the perfect climax... its gotta be downhill from here... lol