Okay well today a severe storm rolled through here and the next thing my family and I know is that half the roof over the garage is gone and a window is busted out. I was in the shower when my mom knocked on the door and said that I need to get out. My first thought was I heard thunder so there must be lightning, nothing to worry about. Then she hits the door and yells, "(insert my name here) you need to get out, shingles are flying off the house!". The first I said was "Oh s***." So I hurry out of the shower, quickly throw some clothes on and look out to find the wind howling, rain pouring down, and shingles all over the yard. My stepdad puts on a jacket and quickly goes around the house and finds that half the shingles on the garage roof are gone and one of the front windows was hit by a shingle and busted out. Thankfully that front window was a double pane window so only the outside pane was hit. The shingle though tore through both screens on the bottom and almost broke another window. Pieces of shingle were stuck in both screens and tears were everywhere. After it calmed down I went out and found shingles all over the north side of our house and blow up against the neighbors side with some shingles in the yard of the house behind them to our north east. The attic got soaked and water was dripping from the ceiling in the garage. Nothing got messed up, but it's scary to think that what if next time it's not wind that tears the shingles off but something bigger and deadlier, plus if the wind had picked up like that just 10-20 feet to the east it would have been my room that could have been flooded and everything in it ruined. The damages are probably well over $1,000, but out insurance is supposed to pay for anything over $1,000 as long as we pay the first $1,000. Odd thing is no one else's house had shingles torn off, just our's. Some trees were blown down and one nice sized one fell on the hood of someone's car in their drive way. Well, now we know what we will be spending are Christmas money on.