June 29, 2012 Friday
Hot weather always seems to summon up bad weather hence the case this Friday night. About 4:10pm the lights began flickering and 10 minutes later it was ON! Cold fronts are almost always accompanied by gusty windys but this time the winds just didn't let up. I stood out back protected from the direct gusts by our house watching 60 foot trees bend 45 degrees. Went inside and saw a large evergreen tree of the neighbors roll across their yard, seemed like a long time but was probably only 8-10 minutes. When it passed and the rain stopped a hell of a mess was left all over town. Fortunately we did not have any damage to our property but did have lots of limbs to pick up and trash from other people's yards. Once we were able to drive around town we found that all the streets were blocked by fallen trees and the Subway down the street had the roof blown off of it. The lumber store beside our building had half the roof blown off of it and lots of property damage for other people. My surveillance camera caught the neighbors tree falling and in the background you could see the storm rolling in, almost look like a tornado. The power pole at the Subway was snapped off at the top and a part of the roof was stuck in the side of the dollar store.
We had the grand daughters Tabby and Jessie for the night so we made a camping night out of it, we stayed in the RV and cooked out on the grill and later had a campfire and made smores. We did not get our electric back until Sunday morning about 4 o'clock. We were fortunate enough to have the RV with a generator so we took it to the house and plugged in our refrigerator and freezer so the food would not spoil unfortunately most of our neighbors were not so lucky to have a generator.
The video from my surveillance cameras, I posted on Facebook on the local news channels site and they played my video on TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcU1eMB0-9s
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