Thursday, September 23, 2010

The Storm

Late Saturday night we had a massive storm hit. It was a HUGE storm. One of those storms that all you can say is: WOW! The winds were coming in sideways. The hail was hitting hard, I thought it would crack our patio door. Our power went out just after midnight. Then we heard an alarm. With the power out, our sump pump wasn't working. The alarm was in there alerting us that the water levels were near flooding. So Danny had to get 5 gallon buckets and dump the water out. He set his phone on an alarm for every 15 minutes so he could dump the water out. I felt so bad for him being up all night. But with out him doing it, our basement would have flooded, so grateful that he was willing to do that. We were lucky and our power finally came back on about 4:30am.






This is the extent of our damage. This huge branch fell of our tree. It didn't do any damage, our pool deck was completely fine. It did look like a war zone around our house and surrounding area. It was amazing the damage that the winds did. There were so many trees up-rooted all around us. Our church was even out of power so it was canceled. It was one crazy storm that left us with lots of clean up to do

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