Environment & Energy

Every time a storm has been so far away, our impacts here were almost nil. Not this time. They were forecasting 40 mph winds, nothing at all scary, BUT we got hit by 71 mph winds - a huge difference. Plus, we think there was a mini tornado in our neighborhood, 3 trees almost in a row went down - including one of ours. Our neighbor got hit hard, 2 HUGE trees came down on her carport and brand new pool and beautiful custom fence. All of those were destoyed. Our tree was small and didn't fall on anything except a dilipated shed that was due to be removed anyway. I'm just really tired from removing all the debris and my back hurts.

I feel so sorry for those folks who are stranded by the floods and hope they make it out ok. It's really difficult living without power when it's blazing hot, and you have so much to do and such a heavy heart.

Best wishes!!!!