We woke up this morning (about 4am) to a very large bang/snap! Aaron looked out the window but it was still to dark to see. A while later he got up again and went downstairs. That is when I heard, "Oh my Gosh!"
This is what we saw.
Yep that's right a HUGE tree in our yard, fell over into the neighbors yard. It actually sits right in the corner behind our fence.
You can see all the tree branches and brush that is in our yard blown all over the place.
This is down the street. This was around 6am.
This is the front yard.
Here is our tree that also fell on the powerlines in our neighbors yard.
This was our neighbors (the other side of us) back yard. Luckily it missed their house!
At one point we saw a news person taking video of our tree. I told the kids, "let's go out there and pretend to be cleaning and maybe we will be on T.V. I got more than I bargained for. He wanted to interview me. I looked terrible!!! Oh well... I was on the news later that evening.
Aaron and I had to stay home from work so we could figure out what to do. We had no power and we didn't know when we would. This was a major storm that took out almost the whole town.
When the kids came home from school we decided to go clean up the park behind us.
Here are the guys working on city guys trying to get a tree unhooked on a live wire! It was a little intense watching.
Here they took down some of the old and put some new up.
Finally the tree is almost gone.
We were w/out power for 3 1/2 days. Lot's of candles, flashlights, and games. It was actually a fun bonding time for our family. However we were thankful when our power was restored. It got a little chilly at night.
Thankfully no one was hurt and all was well in a few days.
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