Tuesday night was absolutely the most frightened I've been in a long, long time. Just after 11PM the wind started blowing --- close to hurricane force I do believe. Lights went out about midnight --- came back on at midnight last night. 24 hours without AC is no fun at all.
Last night we did the whole thing all over --- just not quite as intense. The lightning was much worse, though.
Managed to save the food in the fridge and the freezer. A friend of mine didn't lose electricity, so I packed it all up and took it to her house. *whew*
Didn't lose any trees, but limbs and leaves to the max.
Crazy phone worked all during the storm and through the power-outage. Why it went out today with nothing but sunshine, I'll never know. Just came back on.
Hope everyone behaved.
Hope majestyx made it through OK. She's up between Dallas and Ft. Worth -- they got pounded. Some may not get lights until tomorrow.
Last night we did the whole thing all over --- just not quite as intense. The lightning was much worse, though.
Managed to save the food in the fridge and the freezer. A friend of mine didn't lose electricity, so I packed it all up and took it to her house. *whew*
Didn't lose any trees, but limbs and leaves to the max.
Crazy phone worked all during the storm and through the power-outage. Why it went out today with nothing but sunshine, I'll never know. Just came back on.
Hope everyone behaved.
Hope majestyx made it through OK. She's up between Dallas and Ft. Worth -- they got pounded. Some may not get lights until tomorrow.
Then on past the apt. complex, it took the roof off of several businesses (Hobby Lobby, Dollar Tree and Dollar General Store) on the main highway thru town! Those were the largest and most extensive areas of damage in town. The ironic things is that I can draw lines on a map that puts all of this pretty much in line with my house, and it appears that the wind got worse once it passed over us! We lost one of the exhaust turbins and some shingles from our roof and a tree in the back yard. All in all, we were pretty lucky! Just waiting on the insurance company to send someone out to just take a look at the roof to make sure that everything is okay. Oh, and for the electricity portion, we were in the dark for about 11 hrs. Tues. nite to Wed. morning, and then the second wave hit last nite and the electricity went out again around 11:30 last nite and came back on around 4:30 this afternoon! Had to crank up the generator to save the groceries in the fridge and freezers! 