Guest post from Lynn Kirby:
The robin babies were coming out of their shells today, but I didn’t have time to enjoy them.
Last
night we had a storm, another violent one with strong winds, almost
constant lightning, and really wet. This morning I emptied my rain gauge
and it had more than 5 and a half inches of water it. The two
underpasses in town were filled with water all day, and one of them had 2
cars with just the tops of their roofs sticking out. Trees were down
everywhere, and power was out all night and almost all day for a large
part of town. Many streets were closed because of fallen trees or fallen
signs. (I was awakened at 12:30 a.m. by a phone call from the emergency
system in town telling us not to leave our homes.) Neighbors on both
sides of us had trees down in their yards, and this morning I found
stuff belonging to one of them in our yard.
Our
granddaughter’s neighbor’s tree fell into our granddaughter’s yard
(Heather) in the middle of the night, leaving a broken fence, a ruined
vegetable garden, and a downed live electric line. After waiting all day
for the power company to fix it, they told her since it was on private
property, they have to have it fixed privately, aside from turning off
the power on that line and turning it back on when they receive a signed
statement from an electrician that all the work has been done and is
safe.
People
in the whole town had very little sleep last night, because of all the
noise of the storm. It was not a tornado, because all the trees and
signs, etc., fell in a southeast direction, not scattered. But the winds
were still very high.
With
a temperature of 97 today and no power for air conditioning, Libby’s
daycare was not able to open, so she spent the day with us. Wednesday is
also the day we have Noah here all afternoon. Heather and Patrick and
their 2 kids also spent the day with us. In the afternoon, Patrick’s
parents came and visited for about an hour, too. It was actually kind of
fun, but far more hectic than these two oldsters are used to, and we
are both relishing the quiet around here right now.--
Bill
Main blog: Fear, Fun and Filoz
Main web site: Kirbyvariety
