November 2013 tornado came and went and left that damn darkness behind and I was ever so frustrated. I called the insurance company and told them, and they sent me a booklet of information and told me that they were too busy to send an adjuster to look at it. In fact, every vendor we called gave us similar responses… and then the winter storm blew through our little town two weeks later, leaving us under 3″ of ice until the following spring. No one came out to look at our house, even though it seemed there was no obvious signs of major damage other than the trees and branches on our roof.

Since it was frozen, even the roofers and adjusters didn’t want to be on said roof in fear that they would get injured by sliding off, so it stayed the way it was… because it didn’t look like there was anything wrong. The tornado seemed to “jump” between our house and the neighbor’s house. How in the world this happened, we will never know, and we counted ourselves lucky. Over time, I realized the darkness would eat me alive. Not everything was fine, NOT AT ALL. Did you know tornados that jump your house can miraculously suck nails out of your roof, without budging the roofing material? Yeah, that happened, and it would TAKE YEARS to figure out that there was a problem. Years that let the darkness grow, and turn into neurotoxic mold, that nearly killed me!?! Yeah, that is a thing!

Oh, and neat little factoid, if your insurance company never gets an estimate, and they never come out to look at it, and your house is growing neurotoxic mold because of it, they don’t cover it. They won’t cover the fact that you almost lost your life, and nearly died, or the roof that you need to put on your house. Nope, that’s all your fault, entirely up to you. In the meantime, while you are suffering from a host of weird symptoms and feeling demented, literally having neurological meltdowns, and tremors, and seizures, and various other weird symptoms that no one can diagnose before you ever find the HORRID problem hidden in the darkness growing inside your home.