Another Storm??

I am beginning to believe that "someone" doesn't like the fact that we moved to northern Alabama.

Last night there was a major storm in which we sustained 70+ MPH winds and torrential rain for almost an hour. If you have read previous posts then you will already know that our area is prone to flooding. Well, luckily I think the wind was blowing hard enough to push the rain into the next property so it did not come up to the door as usual. Don't get me wrong there was a lot of water in the yard and the driveway was flooded. It looked a lot like hurricane Elena (from 1985 I think) when we were watching through the window.

We lost power around 7:45PM and spent quite a few minutes in the hallway wondering if the roof was going to blow away. Trees were uprooted and branches scattered. Just take a look at the photo of half a tree from our neighbor's yard which was trapped in our tree. We ended up with only limbs (some huge) down and power outage until around 2:00AM (cable and net out until 8:00pM tonite) so we consider ourselves lucky.

The kids had a grand time though running through the house with flashlights and getting to stay up late. Cathy and I have began saving for a return trip to Chicago! I will take shoveling snow and blizzards over hurricane-strength wind and flooding any day.