The Storm!

Tuesday was somewhat of a normal day...sunny and beautiful, a little humid, but nothing strange. Scott was able to get off of work a little early (a blessing!) so we took advantage of that and went to the lake to watch boats...one of our favorite pastimes. As we were watching the few on the lake, we noticed some very dark clouds approaching. We decided to come home.

Only about 15 minutes after we arrived home, we began to have very loud thunder and close and bright lightening and according to our local weather, we had a bad storm coming. Soon after that, the meteorologist said that there was rotation in the storm at Sixes Rd...this was us!! We of course freaked out, emptied the closet underneath the stairs, and jumped in as hail started pounding the windows and wind started blowing the trees everywhere. It was a frightening experience! It was all over in a matter of a few seconds but we were amazed at the aftermath.

We had very large limbs down in our yard and it was full of all sorts of debris, and our house had leaves and small limbs all over it. It was a scary experience, and not easy to clean up, but we were so fortunate. The tornado had just begun its descent on the street behind us and amazingly enough, we had no structural damage and didn't even lose any of our trees in our woods that we can tell at this point. We went driving tonight to the areas that were hard hit and it is so sad...trees down everywhere and tons of houses damaged. My heart aches for these people! I've never witnessed first-hand the devistation from something like this and it really hit me how your life can change in an instant. Amazingly enough, no lives were lost in the storm!