Hurricane Milton post #9: “That’ll buff right out.”

I was still tired after waking up at 5:45 and writing the previous post, so I went back to sleep for a couple more hours. I had a dream in which I woke up, checked my phone and saw it was 9:03 a.m., and went to survey the damage outside my house. Just as I stepped out the door…

…I woke up. I checked my phone for the time.

8:54 a.m. Close enough, I thought.

The only really worrying thing was the oak branch pictured below:

We have a one-car garage, where our nicer one lives. Our older one, a 2014 Nissan Rogue with less than 70,000 miles on it, lives outside.

Here’s a closer look:

Despite all appearances, the branch wasn’t making much contact with the car, and it didn’t even look scratched.

With the help of our neighbor Michael, who held the branch in place, I backed the car out, leaving this:

That looked a little precarious, but we had a stepladder handy to hold the bottom of the branch in place. That’ll have to do until we can get our hands on a saw or tree service to help:

As for the car: it looks good!