Will my Directv Dish need alignment after 140 mph tornado

[weadjust]

A tornado came through my backyard and across the driveway two days ago. The path of the tornado was about 50-75 feet from the part of the house where the dish is mounted. There is no electricity at the house now so I don't know if the wind moved the dish. The dish mounting points on the side of the house appear to be snug looking at it from the ground.

 

[Leros]

You've got your priorities set straight

 

[Mixolydian]

pics of tornado?

 

[weadjust]

Will video do? The tornado is about 5 or 6 miles from my house in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czhVZTMwzfQ

 

[waggy]

it will be fine. they are tested to withstand a F5 tornado. they use a rare medal on the brackets and screws. hell i hear they can withstand far more then a F5

or maybe not.

 

[weadjust]

Pics of dish mount location

 

[Leros]

What's your house doing up there? I'd be more concerned with the tornado lifting your house out of the ground.

 

[waggy]

looks like a pretty area.

it don't look like it's messed. not much you can do until power is up and you can watch tv. use that time to clean up!

 

[weadjust]

I do have a little yard work to do and pick up the limbs on the driveway.

Driveway from the road. The house is located down the drive and to right in the area where there are no more green tree tops.

 

[weadjust]

What's your house doing up there? I'd be more concerned with the tornado lifting your house out of the ground.

The water in front of the house is the Tennessee-Tombigbee water way. The house is on Pumpkin Creek about a 1/2 mile from the main river channel. There is barge traffic and recreational boat going anywhere from the gulf of mexico to the great lakes. There has been flooding where the water will get under the house. Doesn't happen often. Been about 10 years since I have had water under the house.

 

[Mixolydian]

Driveway from the road. The house is located down the drive and to right in the area where there are on more green tree tops.

whos the fat guy?

 

[weadjust]

whos the fat guy?

A lawyer that owns the house next door. We share part of the driveway and it splits about half way to the houses. He was waiting for the power crew to cut the trees so he wouldn't have to climb over a wall of fallen trees like I did.

 

[sdifox]

Chances are it's fine. You didn't even get a broken window.

 

[sourn]

My sat. lasted through some pretty crazy stuff. But even if it does they're pretty easy to align. Specially where your sat is at. Open up a window and look at the tv while doing it.

 

[Aikouka]

Ahh, I suspected that you lived in Mississippi based on the description of the tornado. I saw the news footage of that tornado the other day when someone had the news on at work. Tornadoes still don't worry me much -- I just don't want to go a week without power like we did in April 2011.

 

[weadjust]

I have signal and hd channels but my signal strength is not as strong. I think the problem is a tree is not aligned and is leaning causing some loss of signal. The one tree I would have liked to see get taken out by tornado survives.
Here is a before picture showing the tall canopy of trees behind the house and the now pictures with no more trees.

 

[sdifox]

cut it down now and blame it on the tornado.

 

[weadjust]

That's my plan. I'm going to horizontally align it with a chain saw. At least if I drop it on the house I can blame it on the tornado.

 

[PsiStar]

That's my plan. I'm going to horizontally align it with a chain saw. At least if I drop it on the house I can blame it on the tornado.

Putting this in writing is not smart.

 

[weadjust]

Why? It was a joke. The damage would still be covered by home owners insurance however it would be a new claim subject to a deductible.