The horror!

I heard a loud cracking sound from the front porch and I was horrified to find that the tree beside the cattle guard entering the compound and been ripped up and it had pulled apart the cattle guard in its fall. I called out to Mom and, upon seeing the sight, said, “Holy crap…” in utter disbelief. While we were grieving over this tragedy that will prevent us from leaving the house via that path, (looks like it’s home recipes tonight) we heard another large cracking and were aware that the tree directly above my car was beginning to fall down as well! I scrambled to move Mom’s car out of the way–getting utterly drenched–and then got in my car and pulled it up beside it while I heard the large oak begin to crack even further. Back inside, after hugging each other, I ran to the back porch to see if anything bad had happened in the back yard. As i was looking out the double doors to the rock garden, the wind suddenly sucked the doors–the locked doors–open! I pulled them back and, with Mom’s help, was able to fasten the ground bolts more securely than they were previously. A friend of ours just called us and told us that two 18-wheelers had been pushed over by the wind on the highway…

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