Mother and a Dreadful Storm

Wordless Wednesday is hosted by Dixie at http://frenchlique.blogspot.com/. Today's theme is "Mother" and I need not say more except for you to go visit Dixie and check out all about moms awesome posts for today.

Thank you , Dixie for taking your precious time to host this event.

It's also Outdoor Wed. and this is not wordless so I can talk. Yipee! Outdoor Wed. is hosted by Susan at http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/. Let's all go visit her and see all the awesome outdoor posts.

Last Sunday while in the shower to get ready for church, the light in the shower started flickering and finally blacked out. I stepped out of the shower and immediately put on some clothes and looked outside. It was 9:45 AM but there was total darkness. ...really freaky! Luckily, we have a centralized generator that kicks in 5 seconds after power goes off. I looked out and the wind was howling and rain started coming really hard. I grabbed my camera and started taking a video but stopped after I got too scared. The wind started blowing so hard towards the house vertically at about 70 MPH. I was pretty sure one or more of the tall trees in the backyard will topple over and hit the house. You can watch the video at the bottom and you will notice that I started praying as I was shutting the camera off. I immediately went to the middle of the house in the hall to avoid getting hit in case any windows break. Then the phone rang and it was John who told me to stay in the house, possibly inside a closet. He had just left to make rounds and he said he was soaking wet.

Just look at the pea size hail.

This is one of the houses in our neighborhood. I knew that wind was dangerous.

another one in our neighborhood

This is our next door neighbor's house.

Luckily my prayers were answered and this is the extent of our damage. The wind blew our chimney covers. One fell all the way to the ground.

The other one came off but stayed on the roof and the other one was still in place but ready to come off. And a tree branch fell off a tree but it was not big enough to cause any damage. And wouldn't you know it that before we could put the chimney covers back, chimney swifts already took over the chimney and you can hear them chittering so loud in the morning and at dusk. Now, we'll have to wait until after the baby birds fly out before we can put the covers back so the mom can feed them.

Please watch the video. Sorry I had to turn it off when the wind started blowing really hard cause I had to take cover.

Thanks Susan for taking the effort of hosting this event and thanks everyone for coming for a visit. I hope you enjoyed your visit cause I surely enjoyed having you.