The Sanduskys have some minor storm damage to their house, but they are otherwise okay. They are temporarily staying at a shelter until the power is restored to their neighborhood.
I don't think I shall ever sleep again as long as I live!!
We are at the high school here in Nashville. We will be here until full power is restored to our area. We had some wild and wicked weather come through here last night, and we sustained some minor damage to our place (mostly trees blown over, lack of power, some damage to our roof, but thank GOD nothing in our house; our house is still standing; it's just dark there!). The kids were shaken up (and understandably so!), and I was too, but Bill remained the calm one, and he told us all to pray for protection from the storm. We were home when the storm hit; and we could hear the roar of the winds and the sounds of the sirens going off. Then the power died. That's when the littler kids started screaming and crying, and the older kids were trying to keep calm themselves; but they did a good job in trying to calm down their frightened brothers and sisters and telling them that everything was going to be okay. Johnny was upset becasue at the time the storm was coming through, he was on the computer, playing one of his video games, and the power died, and he was worried that his game would get ruined.
Ronee' was upset too, because she was hurting pretty strongly last night (wild weather has a way of making her arthritis flare up), and she was in a lot of pain and was dying for some relief; but she couldn't get to her pills in time because at the time we were on our way to shelter, and we couldn't go back to the house. We told her that someone would probably have some pain relief for her arthritis, and then she should stop hurting once the medicine took effect. She was more concerned with relief from her pain than the storm itself! (Silly girl...)
Anyway, it was about five o'clock when the drama started unfolding. We were at home, minding our own business; and at the time, the sky was partly cloudy with clouds dotting the horizon. The air was oppressive, and there was a strong, warm breeze blowing, but the clouds did not appear threatening in any way. We were under a tornado watch at the time, but we weren't too terribly concerned over it. We just carried out our usual business, and we didn't really pay much attention. But by 7, the skies started lowering and started turning darker, and about 7:15/7:30, the tornado sirens started wailing (plus Johnny's weather radio started shrieking madly), which told us that a tornado or a very severe thunderstorm was on its way. As we went to find shelter, I cast one last worried glimpse at the sky; the sky was roiling with ugly, nasty black clouds, and the background behind the lower clouds was a sickly yellowish-green. Freqent pink and yellow lightning was darting across the sky, the thunder was rolling onimously, and the wind was blowing strongly (and it was getting stronger). We went directly to the basement, and we all huddled into the most central part of the room; and we started praying, especially when we heard the wind really kicking up outside, and the unnerving sound of stuff flying around. That was when the power died; which sent the kids into a panic. I got scared, too. I grabbed Bill's hand tightly, and he kept saying, "Louie, it's gonna' be okay..it's gonna' be okay. Just pray we get through this thing!"
I was so scared that the house was going to blow over, or that we would have some significant damage; but soon, the storm went on, and after the all clear had been sounded, we emerged from the basement, like bears coming from a cave, half scared, half excited at what we may find upon coming from the basement. Much to our relief, there was no damage to our house, but the power was out, and when we looked out, we were startled to see trash, large tree limbs, and other stuff strewn about our yard, and also part of our roof lying in the yard, peeled back like a banana. There were also large trees lying in our yard, and one was hanging on our power line; this was probably what had killed our power in the first place.
The sight of the damage was very upsetting, but it was more outside than in; and we were relieved that our house was spared. We knew we had a large job ahead of us, cleaning up the trash and stuff from our yard, but it was a huge relief to know that our house had survived--and we had too. There were ambulances, firetrucks, and police cars lined up on our streets, and we could hear the rescue people and police asking people if they were okay. We told them we were when they came to our place, but we had no power. They told us to go to the school up the way because it would be a while before things would settle; more storms could pop up, and technically, we were under the tornado watch until at least 11 or so.
Thankfully, no more storms materialized. We were relieved once the weather cleared, and we were relieved that it wasn't much worse than it could have been. Still, we DID sustain some damage to our place (mostly roof damage, and also our power, plus trees and trash littering our yard; our yard looked like a trash dumpster threw up!), and so, as a result, we were "temporarily misplaced" until repairs could be made to our roof and to our yard.
Ah, such as the life of springtime here in the southland...storms are very commonplace here, and they can get nasty in a hurry. But we are luckier than a lot of places, as we have a basement at our place, and we think that our basement was instrumental in saving our lives. We could have been killed in the storm, or we could have lost our house altogether. It was ONLY by the Grace of God, every one of us was spared, without any incident or injury to our person. Just our house wasn't so lucky; our house was a storm casualty, and now we are temporarily at a makeshift shelter until things are repaired.
~To be continued.*
*We had some wild weather come here; we had NO storm damage at our apartments (some apartments up the street from us did; we met two ladies who lost their roof), and all of Burleson was without power for four hours. (Some of it is STILL without power, according to a lady beside me.) There was some minor damage; there is debris all over the place, and the news helicopters have been flying around our area all morning.
The firestation, police, and residents think it may have been a minor tornado that came through our area. There was NOTHING minor about it; the stupid storm caused some damage, and because of it, some people are STILL without power this morning, and there is debris all over! NOT good!! :(
We may get more tonight. PRAY we DON'T! (I am READY to go BACK to Ohio; I HATE TEXAS!! The weather BITES the big one here!!! ARRRRGGGHHH!!!!)
Oh Karen and Karla! I am so glad you two are ok!
I have been thinking about you two all last night and praying
for you guys! Excellent story as always Karen!
Yes, we might get more here tonight! Hang on tight!
We barely got anything compared to you guys!
Becca
Wow, Glad to know the Sandusky's as well as you and Karla are okay. We had some intense weather here last night and this morning as well. Summertime in the south!
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