19 Jul 2006 08:09 PM

The Weather

So I go to the door to see Vanessa, age 11 coming at the sliding glass door nearly full force. She's got a panicked look on her face and is moving fast. I look out over her and see nothing but brown. There was dust everywhere. I couldn't imagine what it was, but then I see the tree's bending. Nearly to the ground.

The wind is ferocious and the kids are actually having trouble getting into the house. The chairs on our patio are flying across the  yard. My neighbors Little Tykes Pirate Ship comes flying at our yard from underneath their deck! Towels are flying into other people's yard, and I'm oblivious to it all because my greatest concern at that moment was making sure I had five children safe and sound in the house.

My son and I got all of the patio chairs secured up against the house, and the BBQ pit moved. We put the lighter fold up chairs in the kitchen along with our portable pool ladder. Yes, it looks just great.

I close and lock the door and go to the front of the house. Our trash can is in our neighbors yard, another patio chair is up here and knocked over and I nearly kill myself coming out of the house because of the number of branches everywhere. I can't see a thing because my hair is blowing everywhere and dust and dirty are flying. I can't hear any of my neighbors because the sound of the wind was so high.

We lost two tree branches - one large one in the backyard that crashed into the ground, and one on the side of our house that I swear if it was another inch or two over would have broken the bedroom windows.

Within a half hour we are listening to hard rain drops and pieces of hail hitting our sky lights. It took two of us to get the front door shut at one point because the wind was so strong.

It was absolutely the worst storm I've ever been in, in this particular area.

Thankfully, it's 10:00 and my five are calm and asleep, three of which start school tomorrow.

But two hours ago, we were treated to a most beautiful and rare sight. Our sky was red. I've never seen a red sky in person before so I grabbed my camera. It was breathtaking. You can see the photographs in my gallery or in my photo section of My Site.

I can now look at these pictures and see the beauty in the eye of the storm.

I'm going to bed now! LOL

See you on the blogs tomorrow.

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Lori (1422) 01 Aug 2006 10:15 PM

Wow... what a beautiful sky.