PPP -
We were so extraordinarily blessed, power flickered 5-6 times but never left us. I was outside driving a coffin nail when the front hit - it was amazing. There are 3 100' trees about 100 yards from my sliding glass patio door where I was.
The trees began these huge rhythmic sways back and forth - the wind was whipping small cattle into the air(kidding) and anything not nailed down got scattered by the incoming wind..
Suddenly, the tree tops began to swirl in clockwise circles 30-40' in diameter. The circular motion sped up as the winds increased their fury and a Port-A-Can out on the road was blown over and started rolling towards us!
I quickly finished driving my nail and went inside the sliding glass door locking it behind me. I realized almost immediately that locking the door offered little or no protection from what I was beginning to think was a tornado.
The storm passed by quickly, and miraculously we were spared any damage or loss of power. The other 1/2 of our apt. complex lost power and it will be out for 2-3 days. With heat indexes in the 100's Gail & I were very thankful that we didn't lose power. We are both on meds that can cause heat stroke if we get too over-heated.
*poetic and literary license utilized here*
As I have typed this we just lost power and I foolishly haven't replaced the battery in my ups that the router is on so now I will save this *missle* in notepad and shut down my notebook.
I was typing this Fri morn to you as a reply. The power was out until this morning. Another sudden storm had passed thru and knocked out our power. We ended up packing up the dog and spending the night at the church. We came home mid-morning and have been trying to catch-up ever since.
I suffered from severe FT withdrawal until last night when I discovered a high speed internet connection at church...... only to find out FT was down!!! That sent me into a dimension of p*ssed off like I've never seen!! :)))
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