Can you believe we followed a MASSIVE thunder and WIND storm from Kentucky and the peak of destruction appears to have been our neighborhood, more specifically, our house!
We arrived home at 2am on June 30, after a harrowing drive weaving through downed trees and power lines -- Brandt drove through it ALL and was a champ! He even managed to find the ONLY gas station with power for 150 miles when we had only 11 DTE (distance to EMPTY) on our gas gauge -- we were prepared to sleep in the car…Naturally, the house was dark. Thirty minutes later, Frank pronounced it safe for us to enter (7 BIG trees down, but none hit the house!)
We will likely not have power for the rest of the week at least, but we don't mind another week of "camping" in our basement to stay cool.It has been a blessed adventure!
Glad to hear your house was spared despite the apparent severe damage to surrounding trees. Browsing your blog, I vacillate between begging to join you on your next family adventure AND vowing to keep at least one state between us - ha! Push comes to shove, I'd opt to to join you! Hope your power returns soon and that the next month of adventures in the Berry household are more enviable than "pickles" & power outages. Come see us in AZ sometime and we'll have some adventures together!
ReplyDeleteWelcome Home, Berrys! We are feeling your "pain" of downed trees and no power. Like Derek said, it looks like our yard after the tornado in '98. Glad you didn't have one IN the house though.
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