Two nights ago we had some pretty strong storms that rolled through around 4:00 in the morning that brought some pretty high winds. Jen had been awake for a while watching the lightning and she went to look outside when she thought it was getting worse which was at the same time I ended up being jolted out of bed when the house was hit by a strong gust of wind that made our bedroom wall shake. We checked the weather on TV and they were taking about possible tornadoes right near us so we woke the kids up and brought them downstairs to the bathroom to take cover just in case. I’m not sure there were any actual confirmed tornadoes but we did have wind gusts up to 90 mph. In the end I think we managed pretty well compared to some other folks as we only lost two sections of fence. The roof appears to be ok as I haven’t seen that we lost any shingles and the house siding is all still there.

Alex’s school had a bit more damage with part of the roof missing and a number of windows in he common area that got blown out. They didn’t get the day off school since it was just the roof covering but no one was given tardy slips for not getting there on time. All the houses around the school were in much worse shape then the houses in our neighborhood.

Just down the road from us the intersection has been closed for the last two days because the power and telephone lines had all been blown into the street.