Saturday, June 28, 2008

Survived the Storm!

Our fence after the storm.
Our garage after the storm.
Looks like snow, no just hail.
Picture of the truck after the storm.
Looks like she could crawl any minute. Wait for it..wait for it.
Grace being cute as always.
Hanging out playing while we have no electricity.
Cole getting a drink of water outside.
Our poor house that needs some new paint.

Grace enjoying being outside while her parents are cleaning up the yard and driveway.
Chris cleaning the leaves off his truck.
Gracie having fun hanging out in the in the sun room.
Taking a break from cleaning.
Grace with our friend Joan, who is getting married on the 4th of July in Mexico.
Grace really interested in Lucas's hat.
Gracie with her godparent Lucas.

Well we survived the 10-15 minute storm friday evening. We had just picked up Grace from daycare and pulled into the carport at home when it started to hail and in matters of seconds the wind pickup to 80mph, rain was hard and fast, and the hail came faster and bigger. It really looked like we were in a tornado. As it settled down we could see lots of hail in piles on the ground, leaves every where, and our fence was leaning. When it was finally safe to get out of the truck and go in side we found out we had no electricity. Good thing this happen early enough in the evening that we had the day light to be able to see inside. We sat in the living room on the floor with Grace and listen to the radio to hear about all the damage in the area. Our street in front of our house was flooded. It was about 3 hours later when it started to get dark and we still had no electricity we decide to drive across town to Crystal's parents house, who had electricity, to stay the night because we were not sure when we were going to get electricity again.
Today when we got home we decided to get things cleaned up around the house. More then anything we had a lot of leaves all over. The side of our house by the drive way has a lot of paint chipped off. We also have a leaning fence to fix. We did find out from a neighbor that our electricity was restored a little after 10 p.m. last night.
Tonight we got to go hang out with some friends. We went over to Mike and Joan's house for the last time before the sign papers to sale their house. Also to hang out with them before they go to Mexico to get married.

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