Storm!

As we walked out of Keelin’s tennis lesson at ETC, we could tell there was a storm front quickly approaching us from the East.  You could clearly see it was pouring about 100 yards away across the field.  We quickly jumped in our cars.  My mom and dad were in town visiting so my mom and Emmy road with me, and my dad and Keelin road with Drew.  It started to pour as I backed up my car and was raining so hard I had to pull over behind another vehicle on the access road going back out to Lynch Rd.  We waited out the storm which only lasted maybe 10 minutes, but it was a hell of a 10 minutes!!! You could feel the SUV rocking in the wind and the hail hitting the SUV was so loud.  Emmy was crying in the backseat because she was scared.  I assumed Drew pulled over too, but later found out he kept driving!!! (I don’t know how! You couldn’t see anything!)

As it cleared, we started our drive home.  Along Lynch Rd, there were many fences that were blown over.  As we went around our neighborhood construction, there were huge tree limbs down across yards and roads. We had to drive over two down electrical lines…ooopppps.  A huge tree was completely uprooted as we turned into our neighborhood.  It was crazy!  When we got home, our flag pole was blown off, our table and chairs were blown over, and our umbrella landed over the fence in our neighbors yard.

And then there was the empty space in the middle of the backyard that USE to have a trampoline.  GONE.  There was no damage to the yard barn or 6 foot privacy fence!  The trampoline was also staked in the ground!  It was picked up and tossed over the fence into our neighbor’s yard behind our house!  Maybe 100 yards!

 

Our tree fared better than both of our neighbors’ trees across the street.