These are the first two emails I sent out after the tree hit.

I was a little excited, and trying to best describe what I was seeing,

shining a flash light on the house in the dark. Paul.

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This Sunday evening, about eight pm, a huge wind hit much

of central North Carolina. Praise God, a thirty foot section

fell out of the top of the tree next to the trailer, and did

no damage. You heard me right. With all the writing I have

been doing about God taking care of me, I am still surprised

by it. As a carpenter, I can tell you it is not structurally

possible for a trailer to take the impact it did and not have

any damage. I should mention that I was sitting directly under

that part of the trailer that the tree fell on. I am all right.

Paul

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Sunday, March 7, 2004. I am writing this on a laptop, with the power in my

trailer off, and a flashlight shining on the keyboard. A huge wind hit

central North Carolina, this evening.

There is a thirty foot long branch from the tree next to the trailer, now

on top of it. Actually, the whole top of the Cedar tree broke off.

Lying on its side, the branches extend another twenty or thirty feet, above

the trailer. It looks like a large tree is just sitting on the trailer.

It hit directly over where I am sitting now, and where I was standing when

the wind broke it. Out front of the house a large, not huge tree, is

snapped like a twig. I will have pictures, maybe tomorrow.

The falling branch, really like a small tree, broke off some fifteen or

twenty feet up from the trailer, roof, and landed on it.

Nothing has been damaged, nothing is leaking, and I don't know if it has

even been dented. The whole trailer shook, with the impact, yet nothing

happened to me. God is in control of the storm.