Knock, Knock....Who's There?!

I was awaken in the middle of the night by a loud thud sound. As Damith was still sleeping, I went downstairs to investigate. As I walked out the bedroom door, I saw both cats sitting on the top stair staring into the front room. I immediately thought that they had broken something in the house so I walk around but didn't find anything out of the ordinary. Thus, I thought the noise came from outside and went back to bed.

Close to an hour later, at approximately 2:45am, we were awaken again by the frantic ringing of our doorbell and red/blue flashing lights. Two police officers kindly asked us if we knew that 'someone had driven into our house'. Excused us?! What did they mean someone ran into our house?!

We were informed that a drunk driver turned wide onto the main street into our neighbor hood, avoided a parked car, over corrected and drove through our side yard and hit the house!

As the sun rose, the emergency repairer arrived and we were able to really see the damage to the house.

The noise had indeed come from outside.

The drunk driver had hit a portion of our east foundation wall.

The reason why I didn't see any of the damage when I was initially awoken was because our foundation walls are our basement.