Last night, we had the biggest storm yet! We were actually worried it might be a tornado. It always starts with thunder rumbling in the distance, then it’s soundless lightning, then all of a sudden it’s raining and then raining harder. This time, it was raining so hard and so fast—and the wind was blowing so hard—that the rain was actually being blown UP as it tried to fall off the roof.
The scariest thing was that I was sitting at the computer (in the office) when I saw our neighbor’s trampoline (you know, one of those HUGE ones) come rolling right toward us from across the street! Luckily it stopped in the street (upside down and broken, of course)…but come to find out, it did hit another neighbor’s house and put a hole in their side garage door. Our side next-door neighbors lost about six sections of their huge 6′ fence. At our place, somehow the wind was blowing in through the screen porch and some piece of something came out of place, and we had insulation blowing around and covering everything on the porch. It looked like it snowed! After the storm died down, Tom and Joel hauled the trampoline back (those neighbors were gone for the weekend) and everyone in the neighborhood could be seen gathering all their stuff from across their yards. It was horrible. I can only hope we never see a tornado or hurricane weather. Ironically, our other friends who live down another street at the end of a little cul de sac, barely knew there was a storm brewing. We’re sure it’s because they’re protected on two sides by trees and a third side by a house. We’re pretty much out here in the open, so we got the brunt of it.
