Wow - What a storm...

Last night as we were getting the shoes on the kids to go for a bike ride (as it was bright and sunny out), the tornado sirens started going off. Odd. However, since there have been some really serious tornados lately, Robert took a detour to the basement with the kids while I closed all of the windows and put the cars in the garage. I turned on the TV and saw the news showing pictures of an intersection that was only a 5 minute drive from our house and we said to each other, "There is no way!" Within about 3 minutes, we heard some huge crashes into the side of the house and the following pictures are what happened in about 15 minutes time. It was WILD and we are really grateful everyone is okay.

I have never seen hail this size before. I hope I never see it again

Here are parts of our tree all over our driveway - everything was beat up.

Going up to our front door. The plants were hammered.

Earlier in the day I was thinking about how happy I was with how the hostas had come back this year. Maybe next year they will look super nice. :) Here is one of them up close.

The table on our deck. (my parents had a broken window)

Some BIG hail

Our drain pipes all look the same

And pictures of our siding - the whole neighborhood looks the same.



Some of our screens had trouble too.




Shortly after the storm the whole neighborhood was outside inspecting the damage. One car that was left in a driveway had a shattered rear window.

Look at that pile up of hail at our neighbor's front door.

Annie showing us the hail - the kids had fun in the puddles. Notice how it is all sunny outside just minutes after the storm.

The rainbow....and at least our raspberries are all okay! I hope your Saturday evening was much less eventful.