Wednesday morning (12:45am to be exact) a major storm that developed VERY quickly and produced what they are calling "straight winds." There were gusts in my area 75-86 miles per hour and 5 tornados reported with in 30 miles. I woke up to my ceiling fan slowing down, which means the power JUST went out. I run to shut our windows and it looks like a power washer is blasting our bedroom window. I run to close the kitchen window. As lightning flashes I see that a GIANT branch off our 100 year old tree laying on top of our power lines. I tried calling non-emergency police to report it, it was dead. I called 911 and it was busy. After 25 minutes of a busy signal with 911 (I didn't know that could happen!) I finally got the sheriff who wrote down my address and hung up. 6:30 am the Fire Department checked and the line was dead so we were safe. The damage is crazy around here. 43 hours later we have power.
All the teachers went to school because our little school was the only place for MILES that had power (how it survived with power we aren't sure) and we all used that to charge our cell phones, be in the light, and some even brought their curling irons! Needless to say, we got a lot done in our rooms because it was better than being at home! I actually finished my classroom (the 4k room) and am starting some of the nit-picky details!
The power just came on, the first thing I do after resetting all the clocks? Blog of course!
Here are some storm pictures & room pictures.
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| Tree pinning down our overhead power lines in my back yard |
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| When the lines pulled down, they pulled this metal pole bending it 90* This pole brings the lines into our home. It went from a lower case l to a capital L! |
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| When the lines pulled down, they pulled this metal pole bending it 90* This pole brings the lines into our home. It went from a lower case l to a capital L! |
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| My hand on the branch that fell...the branch, not a tree, but one branch! |
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| the left of the screen is the power line, the right is the end of the tree. The width of my back yard is the height of the BRANCH from our tree! |
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| Splintered power lines on my way to school. |
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| Splintered power lines on my way to school. |
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| 43 hours later, we have the wonderful WE Energy man who drove more than 2 hours to help our area putting the power back on in service! The closest hotel he could find (when he gets off at midnight) is an hour away. The linemen are working SO HARD to help us. Thank You! |
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| After clean up, this is the cut up branch in front of our house. So much tree, but we were SO lucky to have our home, our cars that we use to go to work, and NO injuries. |
NOW MY AWESOME CLASSROOM!
