We're not in Kansas anymore...

We had quite the storm roll through last night. It hit shortly after 9pm, the wind picked up, it was raining cats-and-dogs, it was like a scene straight out of TWISTER. The sky was dark, and when the lightning flashed, it shown eerily through the quickly moving black clouds.

It was over about as quick as it started...and this is what was left in its path...

We lost two tree...limbs?? (I would call one of them a whole tree...but alas it was only part of the greater tree). One fell "safely" in the backyard, hitting nothing, and the other fell squarely on our garage, and hangs over a little on the sides too!!

So my day has been spent on the phone with the insurance company, and the tree cleaner-upper people. I should have become a tree cleaner-upper person, it is apparently quite lucrative!! In true insurance company form...it is just a crock what they will, or rather...will not cover. But...I have been trying to look at it in a "glass half full" kind of way...it could have fallen on the house...one of us could have been hurt...it really could have been much...much worse.

The neighbors didn't fair to well either. They lost a few greenhouses, and a lot of plastic from the greenhouses.

In all the discussions today the word "tornado" has been tossed around a little?! I will say that this is as close to a tornado as I ever care to get.