Storm

Quite a storm come through here on Monday night. When we got back to town after an out of town trip over the weekend, the temps were in the low 80s and it was as muggy as can be. I knew our area was in a storm watch for that evening, so we were keeping our eyes and ears open.

CJ went to bed a bit later than normal that evening, which turned out to be a good thing. Around 8:45, I was in his room helping him get ready for bed and all of a sudden the wind picked up and started howling. I looked out the window and told CJ we were going to check the weather online. As we were walking down the stairs to the main floor, the sirens went off. It was very quick! The 3 of us went downstairs right away and within one minute, our power went out.

Thank goodness for smart phones - we had no other connection with the outside world. Our power was still out when we went to bed around 11pm - it came back on sometime in the middle of the night.

Like others in our city, we had some damage from the storm.

3+ sections of our fence are down -

Small & medium branches down -

Tonight we cleaned up the branches in our yard and have quite a pile of branches for our outdoor fire pit. Joel hopes to work on fixing the fence this weekend. Let's hope we don't have any more severe storms like this anytime soon. We are thankful that we didn't have more serious damage!