AgroVenturesPeru
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Last night about 2am, my wife and I woke up, and then heard our dog howling like a wolf. He does that sometimes in response to something that might be going on with our neighbor's dogs. A moment later a loud bang! Something hard hit our corrugated metal roof. And/or our solar panels! The sound scared the you-know-what out of us.
"A rock?!" My wife exlaimed as we looked out the windows. We couldn't see anyone. So we grabbed the flash lights and headed outside. We signalled for the dogs to assume alert mode, at which they started running in the direction of the neighbors property. They often run off in that direction, because the neighbor's dogs sometimes come on our land, and the dogs fight them and chase them away. Prior to signalling to the dogs, they seemed rather calm, and showed no indications that there was an intruder. They are pretty reliable at night when it comes to unusual disturbances. They might be calm and resting one minute, and a split second later jump to their feet and race off barking at a wild animal 200m away that seemingly made no sound.
My wife thought someone threw or used a slingshot to hit our house in order to see if anyone was home. We live over a half kilometer from the nearest road, and our access is just a muddy trail. One can take a shortcut from some of the properties behind ours, but our brush is seriously overgrown and is now over 2 meters tall in many places.
We don't have any trees overhanging our roof.
What was unusual is that it was just one loud bang on the roof. Nothing more. I figured if it were a rock we would have heard a bounce or two and perhaps the rock slide a little.
I used the ladder today to stand at the edge of the roof, half expecting to see a shattered panel or something. Nothing looked wrong.
We also are thinking maybe it was a golf-ball size piece of hail. That's plausible, because we had scattered showers all night. But only one piece of hail the entire night?! Sounds dubious.
We actually heard a similar sound a few months ago too. I remember that time I was worried I was going find a broken panel. Nothing was wrong that time either.
Well we don't have any enemies here, but this culture is full of jealous people. My wife's from here and says maybe just some bitter person was jealous of our ability to live off-grid. If only they knew what a hassle it is, they'd realize there's not much to be jealous of.
My wife is also a bit superstitious, and entertains the possibility that our dog was howling at an evil spirit, and some sort of demon threw a rock at our house. If so, maybe it's high time to bend the knee.
I'm stumped. Our house is small (about 40square meters), and we both sat at opposite ends of the exterior of the house for quite some time afterwards looking to see if someone a few hundred meters away turned on a flashlight to assist their getaway. Our house sits atop a pretty steep hill, so we have a great vantage point.
Anyone on here with corrugated steel roofing ever had this experience? Perhaps one of the mount structures for the panels is able to reproduce such a sound if it has a glitch or something?
I've linked another thread so you can see the kind of roof material we have.
"A rock?!" My wife exlaimed as we looked out the windows. We couldn't see anyone. So we grabbed the flash lights and headed outside. We signalled for the dogs to assume alert mode, at which they started running in the direction of the neighbors property. They often run off in that direction, because the neighbor's dogs sometimes come on our land, and the dogs fight them and chase them away. Prior to signalling to the dogs, they seemed rather calm, and showed no indications that there was an intruder. They are pretty reliable at night when it comes to unusual disturbances. They might be calm and resting one minute, and a split second later jump to their feet and race off barking at a wild animal 200m away that seemingly made no sound.
My wife thought someone threw or used a slingshot to hit our house in order to see if anyone was home. We live over a half kilometer from the nearest road, and our access is just a muddy trail. One can take a shortcut from some of the properties behind ours, but our brush is seriously overgrown and is now over 2 meters tall in many places.
We don't have any trees overhanging our roof.
What was unusual is that it was just one loud bang on the roof. Nothing more. I figured if it were a rock we would have heard a bounce or two and perhaps the rock slide a little.
I used the ladder today to stand at the edge of the roof, half expecting to see a shattered panel or something. Nothing looked wrong.
We also are thinking maybe it was a golf-ball size piece of hail. That's plausible, because we had scattered showers all night. But only one piece of hail the entire night?! Sounds dubious.
We actually heard a similar sound a few months ago too. I remember that time I was worried I was going find a broken panel. Nothing was wrong that time either.
Well we don't have any enemies here, but this culture is full of jealous people. My wife's from here and says maybe just some bitter person was jealous of our ability to live off-grid. If only they knew what a hassle it is, they'd realize there's not much to be jealous of.
My wife is also a bit superstitious, and entertains the possibility that our dog was howling at an evil spirit, and some sort of demon threw a rock at our house. If so, maybe it's high time to bend the knee.
I'm stumped. Our house is small (about 40square meters), and we both sat at opposite ends of the exterior of the house for quite some time afterwards looking to see if someone a few hundred meters away turned on a flashlight to assist their getaway. Our house sits atop a pretty steep hill, so we have a great vantage point.
Anyone on here with corrugated steel roofing ever had this experience? Perhaps one of the mount structures for the panels is able to reproduce such a sound if it has a glitch or something?
I've linked another thread so you can see the kind of roof material we have.
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