The Storm

Monday night we had a horrible storm that came through. I was about to put the kids to bed when the lightening and thunder got pretty bad. Johnny loves storms so it was all I could do to keep him out of the sun room and away from the windows. You could hear the wind howling and thud of tree limbs hitting the roof of the house. We have a lot of trees in our yard so even a little storm causes plenty of debris. We also had two dead pine trees not far from our house that needed to be cut down. We figured if they didn't fall during the Mother's Day storm they wouldn't be falling anytime soon. Well we were wrong. Johnny had just spotted one that fell and had crushed our fence in the back. Right when I walked in the sun room to check it out the other one fell on our shed. It is a horrible looking shed that we have yet to redo, so now I guess we will have to redo it. It crushed the tin roof and knocked off pieces of wood. It was actually sort of neat to see it happen, but scary since it is about 6 feet or so from our house. We are just glad that nothing hit the house itself. We have a huge Oak tree next to the house in the front and some of its limbs knocked our gutters off, but I am sure one day it will do more damage if we don't have it removed. We are not sure if it is worth claiming on insurance, but I know Walon and Dean are tired of hearing from us! Here are some pictures I took after the storm stopped.