Tornado!!!!!!!!!!

Holy Crap! We still can't believe it but according to the police officer that saw them, we survived our first tornado today. We assumed it HAD to be but the police officer confirmed he saw two funnels.

First of all, thankfully they weren't big and we don't have any damage on our property.

It's a rare moment that both boys are asleep at the same time and today they were so we were both sound asleep as well. Thinking I heard rain I asked Hubby if he heard it knowing full well he was going to want to put his motorcycle in the garage if it was raining. He checked and yes it was raining. In the brief moment that it took for him to walk to the garage and open it things got bad. The wind was howling & the rain & hail were coming down extremely hard and heavy. I took a peek out the back window and what I saw concerned me enough that I shouted, "Should I be in a bathroom with the boys?!" I got no answer so I went into the garage to investigate what he was up to and what was going on.

The rain was being blown over half way into the garage and the wind was unreal. When Hubby first stepped out into the garage a tree behind our fence snapped. Hubby described the car as looking like it wanted to just fall over! It only took a couple of minutes for things to calm down and once they did we realized that about 50ish feet down the fence line about 75 feet or more of fence had been knocked over. Several things had been rearranged but everything was in tact. No damage on our property.

Some branches took out some powerlines within eye shot of our house & we were without power off & on for a short time. There are some pretty big trees down in the area and lots and lots of debris up and down the streets. Here are a few pictures. They aren't great but you get the idea.

This is standing in our driveway looking south.

Same picture, zoomed in.

Our house is to the right in this picture.

Standing in our driveway looking north, that whiteish rectangle in the middle of the picture is our resident porta potty, on its side. Yes, the poor construction guys have to go SOMEWHERE, lol.

This tree & fence are along our driveway. That's how close it was!

This poor house is just down the street from us, they had some pretty big branches fall off their trees.

Wow! What a day!