... Minimal. Just a couple of branches. And we're thankful for that!The cause? A middle of the night storm that rolled, crashed?, stampeded?, through town. I awoke to the sounds of the tornado sirens at 2:30 am, and hurried the kids to the basement. During the day, bad weather does not frighten me, but in the dark of night, when it's difficult to get information about what's going on, we were all much more anxious.
All our local weather guys must have been caught by surprise too, because the typical middle of the night programming was on tv for a good while, nothing like the typical hour-after-hour storm coverage that comes with a severe weather watch during the day. After a short time we finally started getting local information from the news/talk station, that has a couple of guys that live near the station.
This morning, the tv news is reporting a possible tornado right here in O!, though west of my neighborhood. Close enough, however!
We sure didn't expect our backyard tree- a buckeye tree? a horse chestnut tree?, to be damaged! We're much more anxious about the silver maple in the front yard, but thankfully, it's still there.
4 comments:
We didn't lose any branches, but did you read my blog? Andrew had a rather exciting night. Tamara said she didnt get any damage.
yikes Kristy! We got pounded too but no damage. There were over 100 schools closed locally.
Have you heard any reports about a big bus flying by? It has Texas license plates on it! We hope our wee housie and car are still safe and sound! Happy you are safe and well! Love from Ankara!
how scary for you!!!! I'm glad that you are all okay though!!!
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