I guess after I went to bed, the wind started flat out howling and it was hailing so bad that the yard was completely covered in ice, according to Lisa.
I went out to feed the chickens this morning and saw an ash tree down by the road snapped. That I'm not tripping over, it was dead and I had planned on dropping it anyway rather than having it fall across the road.
I called the ladies across the road to see if they needed any help with any damages and they told me they had a high bird house mounted on a 2.5 inch metal pole, and the freaking wind snapped the pole. Kathy went into town this morning to get donuts for her and Miss Katherine and she said there's trees down in Lafayette, one of them landing on a house.
And I slept like a baby through it all.....
A clear conscience is an honest man's pillow.
ReplyDeleteI didn't go to bed till the last storm front blew through here some time around 3-3:30 am.
ReplyDeleteWe had tornado warnings last night and plenty of wind. There was a tornado track 10 miles south of us in Perry Co. near Lobleville. Don't know yet if there's damages locally.
For non local readers, I live 60-70 miles west of Nashville.
At 2:00 am our power went out. It must have popped on for a minute because the oven woke me up when the power hit it. Then dark, no light. After that, the lightshow started. For the next 15 minutes, constant lightning and thunder. I could navigate the house easily with no power. It was a hell of a rain storm. The power came back on just after 5:00 am.
ReplyDeleteI have not found any downed trees, but the small bridge on my lot took us three hours to clear, even standing in crotch deep running water. The bridge over the county road is so badly blocked, I don't think I will be able to clear it myself. I have not found any downed trees yet, but I have not gone looking for them. Later.
Just as the last rain was leaving this morning, there was a very bright flash of lightning followed almost immediately by a crashing blast of thunder that shook the whole house. My wife slept thru the whole ordeal.
When I got up at 4:30, there was still light thunder. My stove clock was flashing so we lost power too, but when Lisa got up she said it went out for only about 5 minutes at about 2am.
DeleteI just got back from town. The 'damage' wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. There were a couple trees and one power pole down, the rest were all big limbs that snapped off. I didn't see any structure damage at all.
The road out of our "community" was blocked by several downed trees; since removed by road crews or a neighbor. One of our neighbors said that Galen is closed between here and town. She had to detour before she hit Bradley Hollow where two good sized creeks cross and parallel the road bed. We will see after they open the road back up to thru traffic. The weather radar was very nasty during the 2:00 storm (my laptop and network gear are all on separate power supplies so don't go down when we lose power).
DeleteI started to come up Galen on my way home and now I'm glad I didn't - I detest detours.
DeleteDamage in my little town was significant. Power out 18 hrs, multiple trees down, one a neighbors
ReplyDeleteCar, power lines down on the roads, and crews
still working on putting up new poles. Then another storm came along around 2 am, more lightening and thunder, but thankfully, no high winds. Our yard was neat and pretty, now it looks like you dumped out a thrash pen. No one hurt or injured.
Sorry to hear that, I really am.
DeleteHere in SW Ohio. Fair bit of wind couple nights ago. Went down an adjacent street I don't often travel on, saw a badly mangled Dodge Dakota up ahead. Figured it was a bad accident. Got up to it and no, no vehicular accident. The old maple adjacent to it shed a branch that must have been two feet around and it crushed it. Poor truck looked like a giant kid had taken a pipe and just smashed it down on it. Went down some other streets and quite a number of trees damaged. This is a poor farming village, that lost Dakota might not mean much to some folks, but it was probably that guys only ride.
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