Monday-Sunday, June 22-29, 2026
Day 5 – Monday, June 22, 2026
Monday was busy. First, an adjuster from State Farm (finally) called and I connected him with Spencer. He will be over on July 1st, NEXT Wednesday. Next we scoped out the trees once again and continued trying to get a garage door company over here to replace the garage door. We have that as a high priority for safety reasons.
I also started working on a list of the food we had lost and updated the personal property list.
Day 6, Tuesday, June 23, 2026
I was outside in the morning and a man walked up and said he was from a Menonite church near Arthur and he said he had a volunteer crew working on cleanup. He said they would come over as soon as they finished the job they were on. Any help is appreciated and will reduce my cost on the tree cleanup.
Update: These wonderful people had 5 or 6 chainsaws, 11 or 12 people, and a skid steer, and worked here for about 4 hours. That’s over 40 man-hours of labor. I will be making a donation to their church, even though they did not request one.
Clearview Menonite Church, Hammond, IL
Now we’ll just have to hope that some government entity shows up to haul off all the branches. The city picked up across the street, but the street is the city boundary so they didn’t pick up our side. The governor was here yesterday, so we’ll see what kind of disaster funds they cut loose for pickup.