Week 2: Tearing down what remains

While it was hard to see the damage done to our building by the tornado, for some reason it was even harder for me to see the remains of the building being taken down and hauled away by the debris removal company. While I know that we could not salvage what was left, the high-hoes and dump trucks had a certain finality about them.

We always thought it was fitting to have a log building, seeing as we specialize in wood furniture, and so we were sad to see that chapter of our company’s history close. It was important for us to keep focused on the fact that once all the debris was removed, we had a clean slate on which to build our new workshop.

The following are a series of images as the high-hoes took down the last remnants of the building on a beautiful, blue-sky day.

The ironic thing is that our dust collector, the blue tower-like structure in some of the pictures, is the one thing that appears to have survived the tornado unscathed, even though it was located outside the building - strange how these things play out.

And here is the site, with all the debris taken away, a blank slate on which to move forward.