Enough Already
Enough already with the weather!
We are really enjoying the cool temps that come with it and thankfully we've not had significant damage. We are all safe. We have a (leaky) roof over our heads. Our home and trees are still upright. Our vehicles are drivable. The only real downside for us is that we'll end up doing the bulk of the needed repairs out of pocket. Hopefully that will occur this week!
Ellie, our up and coming Meteorologist, even said a prayer of thanksgiving for our safety as she lit a candle during Church service Sunday morning. She's really been on top of the weather reports lately. Thankfully this has helped calm her fears a bit. Though listening to her tell Grandpa & Yia Yia about our leaky roof, you'd think that our entire roof was about to cave in.
But many others have not been so lucky and the damage has been intense.
We had been planning to attend an outdoor concert and firework show on Friday evening, but we knew bad weather was headed our way. We had been in touch with our friends throughout the day to talk about the status of the weather and what we should do. We toyed with the idea of putting blankets out as recommended by organizers and then stay away and under shelter until the storm had passed. But we also didn't want to deal with all the soggy blankets on top of tired kiddos at 11:00 at night. Logically, if the weather report was right, it made sense to stay clear from the park until after the storm had passed. It was supposed to hit our area between 4 and 6:00. The concert was to kick off at 6:00 with fireworks at 10:00. But it was just killing us to hold tight. It was an incredibly beautiful day! It was a top 10 day until the storm hit!
We did hold out and I'm so glad we did. The storm came in fast and hard at 4:30ish and hit the north side of town (where I work and where the park is) really hard. They claim it wasn't a tornado, "just" straight-line winds. I've learned more about straight-line winds this season than ever before.
Trees - large large trees - are down all over the place. The ground is so saturated that these huge 100 year old trees have been totally uprooted from the ground. And this time, the heavy storm path went through our older part of town. People have intense hail damage where the hail was launched like bullets from a gun. At work, water was streaming through the top of our closed fire door. I was on the phone with Carie just as it hit us and we could no longer hear what each other was saying... except, stay put! Once it moved on, the few of us remaining headed to our vehicles and headed home. A mid-sized tree had fallen but thankfully it missed the vehicles in our lot, if only barely. Down the street, co-workers weren't as lucky. Before we could actually go anywhere we had to uncover our vehicles from the piles of leaves plastered to every possible surface. I removed the bulk of the leaves before heading home, but even after driving on the interstate I still had a significant amount of leaves remaining on my car. Leaves were lodged in places that required us to pull them out piece by piece.
Needless to say, all events were cancelled.
Suddenly it was a stay at home night and we found ourselves starting our big project for the weekend. No rest for the weary, I guess!
We are really enjoying the cool temps that come with it and thankfully we've not had significant damage. We are all safe. We have a (leaky) roof over our heads. Our home and trees are still upright. Our vehicles are drivable. The only real downside for us is that we'll end up doing the bulk of the needed repairs out of pocket. Hopefully that will occur this week!
Ellie, our up and coming Meteorologist, even said a prayer of thanksgiving for our safety as she lit a candle during Church service Sunday morning. She's really been on top of the weather reports lately. Thankfully this has helped calm her fears a bit. Though listening to her tell Grandpa & Yia Yia about our leaky roof, you'd think that our entire roof was about to cave in.
But many others have not been so lucky and the damage has been intense.
We had been planning to attend an outdoor concert and firework show on Friday evening, but we knew bad weather was headed our way. We had been in touch with our friends throughout the day to talk about the status of the weather and what we should do. We toyed with the idea of putting blankets out as recommended by organizers and then stay away and under shelter until the storm had passed. But we also didn't want to deal with all the soggy blankets on top of tired kiddos at 11:00 at night. Logically, if the weather report was right, it made sense to stay clear from the park until after the storm had passed. It was supposed to hit our area between 4 and 6:00. The concert was to kick off at 6:00 with fireworks at 10:00. But it was just killing us to hold tight. It was an incredibly beautiful day! It was a top 10 day until the storm hit!
We did hold out and I'm so glad we did. The storm came in fast and hard at 4:30ish and hit the north side of town (where I work and where the park is) really hard. They claim it wasn't a tornado, "just" straight-line winds. I've learned more about straight-line winds this season than ever before.
Trees - large large trees - are down all over the place. The ground is so saturated that these huge 100 year old trees have been totally uprooted from the ground. And this time, the heavy storm path went through our older part of town. People have intense hail damage where the hail was launched like bullets from a gun. At work, water was streaming through the top of our closed fire door. I was on the phone with Carie just as it hit us and we could no longer hear what each other was saying... except, stay put! Once it moved on, the few of us remaining headed to our vehicles and headed home. A mid-sized tree had fallen but thankfully it missed the vehicles in our lot, if only barely. Down the street, co-workers weren't as lucky. Before we could actually go anywhere we had to uncover our vehicles from the piles of leaves plastered to every possible surface. I removed the bulk of the leaves before heading home, but even after driving on the interstate I still had a significant amount of leaves remaining on my car. Leaves were lodged in places that required us to pull them out piece by piece.
Needless to say, all events were cancelled.
Suddenly it was a stay at home night and we found ourselves starting our big project for the weekend. No rest for the weary, I guess!
Labels: Weather
posted by Sonya at 8:09 AM
4 Comments:
I'm so glad your family is safe. You and everyone in the area will be in our thoughts and prayers.
wow. ya know...that's exactly how my baby brother ended up as a meteorologist...by staying tuned into the weather non-stop, leading up to, and during hurricanes!
so glad y'all are safe!
we had winds like that here in Austin a few weeks ago. it came horizontally from the west and we lost a lot of trees on UT campus...and plenty of windows.
How horrible. I hope the weather improves!
I'm glad to hear you're all ok. The storms sound intense. How scary.
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