Our sad share of storm damage here

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In the last several weeks, we have had endless storms, lots of tornado warnings, flood warnings and wind warnings. A few tornadoes touched down here and there that were very close but didn't hit here. Well, that's a good thing...storm damage around here for the most part amounted to some trees falling over from intense winds, and some flooding here and there. People reported roof damage, a few barns near the city were destroyed by various storms, and a lot of semi-trucks flipped over on nearby highways during these storms. Considering how high the winds have been here; we are very fortunate it not to have lost more lives or property. Oddly, yesterday and today we have had off-and-on thunderstorms with big wind gusts. We had one about 7AM, with several big gusts and lots of thunder. I heard a huge noise, something hit the back of the house. Since the non-existent sun was up at that hour, I looked out to see--but couldn't see anything. I thought, well...I will wait until it stops raining, and go out there and look. It died off storming about 9AM so I went out to see what the huge boom was all about. I have mentioned many times we have a lot of geese here, this is their home. Evidently, one of them got caught in a wind gust, and somehow got tossed against the back of my home, it was by the back door. It was deceased, and appeared that it had a broken neck from this. I wasn't sure what to do as they have stressed to NOT touch the geese in any way due to bird flu. So, I called the wildlife people, and they came and got it. The man who came said he agreed, it appeared to be a broken neck from the landing it went though. I felt badly for the goose, but it appeared the death for the poor bird was instant. The fellow said he had to pick up several this week that had been in bad wind gusts and didn't survive, but I do wish it hadn't taken place, especially right by my door. Pixabay picture.