We(me, Sydney, Jennifer (my ex sis in law), and Cali (my niece)) went out to eat after church, right after the wind started kicking up. I headed home after that and got within 2 miles maybe and there was a huge tree blocking the road with downed power lines. Now, I had dodged maybe 5 down trees up to this point, but I wasn't getting around this one. So, I had to head back out to the expressway, dodging those trees again, head up to the next city (17 miles), and head back that way, cut over taking back roads and managed to have a clear path (well, mostly) all the way home. Thank God for that. However, once I got home, I realized we had no power and I couldn't get in through the garage door. Now, I had my keys that should have worked for the front door, but apparently, it was never keyed correctly, and it worked for the deadbolt, but not for the knob. So, long story short, about 3 hours later, my neighbor managed to get us in. Our outhouse is now on it's roof, I just can't believe the winds got that strong. Sydney's swingset is messed up, the spindles that were used for steps to get up to the slide were splintered and broken and the whole thing almost blew over, according to my neighbor. Thank God we didn't lose any shingles and there are no trees close enough to our house to cause any damage. Mom said the winds got up to 80 mph, which classifies this as a Category 1 Hurricane winds. Mom had a tree fall toward her house and missed her big picture window by 6 inches, which is what the picture is of. My mother in law had a tree fall on the back of her house and about 5 or 6 more fall in her yard. We were without power until only Tuesday, which I feel very blessed for. Some are still without power 6 days later.
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