The news is calling the storm that hit my home town a "micro burst" and not a confirmed tornado, but it did a lot of damage. Power was out in many places, roads blocked, lines down etc. We are guessing that so many trees came down due to the massive rainfall, and roots very wet at the time.
Early Wednesday morning, I was sipping coffee on the front porch. County workers cut grass on the highway and it was thrown all over the road. Before I could call the Sheriff (pretty bad when you have to call on county road workers), someone else did and they came out and walked the highway with a leaf blower. Pretty dumb way to do this, as it's unsafe, but they had a truck behind them. At least they blew if off. One motorcycle had already come up the highway before they arrived.
Our biker friend who mows, came out and helped clean out our barn, taking broken down weed whackers and a mower. He'll fix them up and possibly sell them, and we are glad to help him out and clean out stuff. He also took our tiller to do some repairs on it for us.
I took a trip there to do some shopping, and try and locate a salad dressing I wanted (plan b was to try and make it from scratch). I picked up our 20 year-old and spent some time with her. Plan b is now happening today. Hopefully it will taste even better homemade.
We got more rain last night. If we get more today, the country highway by us will flood for sure. Field is already flooded with standing water this morning. It's hot, sticky, no breeze whatsoever, and more rain possible today.
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That was a lot of damage...scary.
There was lot more damage than in these photos, but yes lots of damage. Thanks for stopping in Parsimoney
Glad you are ok. Wow that tree looks as if it just grazed that beautiful old home. scary.
Wow! That is a lot of damage. It seems that we are having pop up storms for the rest of the week. We are heading to camp and I pray that we don't have to deal with flooding.
That micro-burst looks scary. Those workers are dumb-asses lol...taking the dumb way to do stuff likely takes them longer so that they rack up more hourly wages?
I am so sorry to read about the huge amount of damage. You are in my prayers for speedy repairs and safety.
Faith, that storm took out a lot of old trees and damaged a lot.
Carol, we were invited to go camping this weekend, but Hubby's working nights still, and it's way too hot and humid to even enjoy oneself.
Rain, I agree. They need blowers on their mowers for country road mowing.
Thanks mamasmercantile.
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