Hey smilin' strange...

[dr_whom]

Monday evening I got a phone call from the Beverly, Mass. police department. It seems a tree had fallen on my parents' house during the storm. My parents were (fortunately) out of town at the time, and the police were trying to notify them of what had happened—and apparently the police department has my cell phone number, but not my parents'.

Anyway, I gave them my parents' phone numbers, and Wednesday morning after my parents got home from St. Louis they told me... it was my room the tree had fallen on:



I didn't have that much that I valued in there—obviously most of the things I care about are here in Philly—but there are some. In the bottom center of that picture you can see a poster from my first Noteables concert; and from where the roof is caved in it looks like it fell exactly on top of the stuffed animals I had when I was little. My parents said that once they've actually got the eight tons of tree moved off the top of the house they'll see what they can salvage from in there. The impact was intense enough that my sister's room, right below mine, got its ceiling punctured as well. The tree also damaged the house's heating and water systems, so they can't even stay in the less-damaged part of the house until some repairs take place.

Thanksgiving's in three weeks; I'm guessing we might not be hosting it this year. I'm not even sure where I'm going to stay when I'm up there.

Comments

[midnight-sidhe.livejournal.com]

*hugs hugs hugs hugs hugs*

[ophblekuwufu.livejournal.com]

Yikes! So glad nobody was in it at the time!
That sounds traumatic, even so. Take care.

[sandmantv.livejournal.com]

:(

[zdenka]

Yikes! I am sorry your room was damaged and glad no one was in it. That is a distressing event. My sympathies.

[miraclaire.livejournal.com]

I'm glad nobody was hurt. Sadly, I don't think we're going to have a guest room *quite* by Thanksgiving, but we might, and we'll certainly have one by mid-December, so let us know if we can put you up.

[dr_whom]

{{hugs}}

[dr_whom]

Thanks. I'm gonna miss the old place.

[dr_whom]

I know, right?

[dr_whom]

Thank you.

[dr_whom]

That's really sweet of you. I'll... keep you posted, I guess!

[tiamat360.livejournal.com]

Ohhh that is sad :(

[cinnamoncitrus.livejournal.com]

Oh no! :< I'm glad no one was hurt at least!

[dr_whom]

Me too! If you're gonna have a tree fall on your house, when you're out of town for the weekend might be the right time for it?

[dr_whom]

True.

[lowellboyslash.livejournal.com]

Yikes!! I'm so sorry! Hugs!

[prisminawindow.livejournal.com]

Gah -- that's awful. I'm glad that you're safe, but I'm so sorry. *sending hugs*

[cmouse.livejournal.com]

*scritch*

[pastwatcher]

Aww :( joining the chorus of hugs here.

[khyros.livejournal.com]

I'd be pretty devastated if something like that happened to my old room. Grateful no one was hurt but much sympathy for the extant trauma. So sorry.

[http://users.livejournal.com/-mycroft-holmes/]

Probably outside your target radius, but you'd be welcome on the Cape (the southern one).

[dr_whom]

Thanks; hugs back. I'll see what it's like in a couple of weeks, I guess!

[dr_whom]

Thanks. Still haven't quite processed it, you know; but I'm just glad that no one was there at the time, and there wasn't all that much stuff that mattered to me in the room, I think.

[dr_whom]

*headbob*

[dr_whom]

Thanks. :)

[dr_whom]

Thanks. It'll be weird to go look at it over Thanksgiving, that's for sure.

[dr_whom]

I appreciate that! Probably doing family Thanksgiving in Newton this year, it seems.