July 31, 2011--the storm

I  have always been intrigued by storms and clouds. You cannot fathom the amount of  cloud  pictures I have. It is obscene. So when this whopper of a storm blew upon us rather quickly,  you better believe I was camera ready! My husband and I had just dropped off our kids at Grandma's and were heading home a mile away. I'm still a little fuzzy on the details because it all happened so fast. It began raining. Then it began raining sideway and hard.

We were then sitting in the van waiting for it to slow down so we could run inside when our van lifted up and moved about 3-4 inches. That's when we ran. I hit our front porch with a rather hard thud banging my elbow on the concrete. Hard. It still hurts. Anyway, Scott, my hero hubby, wrestled our front door open as our wrought iron porch furniture blew off the porch. As we race inside, we hear several audible cracks we assumed were thunder. It turns out it wasn't thunder. It was 4 trees. Two in the next-door neighbors yard (one landed on the roof), one of our across-the-street neighbors enormous pecan trees and one of our apple trees.

I cannot remember being so scared. Here is what we saw during and then after our long one mile journey. I'm sure tomorrow will bring more photos.