Our Crazy Night

So I read the weather warnings on-line of severe thunderstorms, possible tornadoes and wild winds. But they always say those kinds of things... and well, it never turns out this bad!

This is the result of Sunday nights storm. These are branches from a tree in our yard and below you can see the monstrous tree that fell down into our neighbors driveway and into the street.
We are lucky it didn't fall the other way into the house. When this huge tree did fall the entire house shook and I seriously thought it was going to fall apart, the wind was so bad. That's when we gathered the boys up out of bed and headed down into the basement for a "fun campout".

The storm took out our power lines, so we had no power from 10:00 Sunday night until this morning.

This storm seriously freaked me out. I'm exceptionally grateful we did not have any tornadoes come through Des Moines, I know many people in Iowa are suffering from the aftermath of the tornadoes that tore through the state.

Many were saying the winds got up to 80 mph. I don't know how accurate that is, but it must be pretty close to take down these huge trees.

You can see above the man working to get the branches off the wires. We had people working throughout the night last night to get our power fixed. I fell asleep after eleven and could still see their lights outside and hear them fixing things.

Our neighbor was exceptionally lucky his car did not get smashed. Talking to him the morning after the storm he said he went out to get something out of his car and as he was walking away, that's when the tree fell. Freaky!

But everyone is safe and we're glad for that! We did go to Nauvoo over the weekend, those pictures to come soon!