Summer Storm

This is what rolled into our neighborhood this past week! No tornadoes, but the wind was absolutely INCREDIBLE! Our trees stood strong, but others' in our neighborhood were not so lucky. Some big branches came down on the transformer for our street/area and knocked out the power from about 8:30 until midnight. Across the street a huge part of a tree came down (thankfully into the street and not the house nearby). The next street over, one woman's tree got completely uprooted, knocking down their power lines in their front yard while in their back yard, their 100 ft tall maple snapped in half and fell onto their neighbor's new fence. Yikes.

We hung out in the dark for a bit, looking at pictures on the computer. (Christian was the only one awake--he'd taken a nap that day and wasn't quite asleep when all the commotion started.) Around 9:30, we got tired (and bored!) and just went to bed.

Thank goodness everything held strong--it was a crazy storm!