In the early hours of the morning we were hit by a mighty wind, but not the Holy Spirit variety... Just the extreme weather sort! 4:30 am or so, I heard a roar and a huge flash of light. Our power went out, and when I became coherent enough to get up and look out, I saw a tree down in the dark. It wasn't until the sun started to come up that we saw the extent of the wind's power.
But I kinda wish I
had been up so I could have seen (from the safety of our house)...
... the wind pick up the stuff in our backyard as well as some large pieces of roof from a neighboring building and fling it against the fence in the front yard...
...whatever it was that bent the cross over on top of the steeple...
...and bring down two trees and several huge branches (and we're thankful they blew
away from our house and our neighbor's house instead of
toward them!).
The tree knocked out our power and phone, so we're also thankful for our neighbors who looked out for us, a warm church building right next door with a crib and nursery to play in and kitchen to use while our power was being restored, for an efficient electric company who got the blown transformer back up by noon, and for the fire department volunteers who kept everyone safe and filled up our van's tire when we pulled out to take Naomi to school and discovered we had a flat!
I thought it was March that comes in like a lion, but this year it was February.
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