One Month Ago, Today.....



one street south of us....broken trees...one was on her car I think..but the bulk of it landed just behind her car....and only the smaller branches landed on her vehicle....not ONE scratch..she was giving glory to God for this

one of many trees uprooted on Stovall Rd., just across Wall Triana from us

some of the utter destruction where the tornado touched down on a road about 200 yards from our neighborhood--this WAS a hosue

one street south of us..our back yard-kittycorner neighbor...both of her trees were uprooted like this..but they have re-rooted them

this piece of bark was sucked off a tree and thrown into the street near our house...we were fascinated at how the holes were there...maybe the bark was pulled off after the branches..or pulled off over the branches??   We saw all kinds of things...

another sight on Stovall (where Yarbrough comes in)....the stop sign had been totally upright before the storms...and the house in the background was damaged badly as was the one just west of it

yet in our own yard, we only lost a single branch??  wow!

another one of our neighbor's lost a tree..very common sight in our neighborhood...as well as a lot of flood damage..

huge tree down in the Ford's Chapel UMC cemetary..they also lost a part of their building and steeple

a 'glob' of hail that fell during the 11:30 a.m. storm....when we lost our power (it was not restored for 7 days)

rescue workers keeping order at FCUMC..if you look closely you will see the steeple in the left....the remaining part of the brick building just to the right of that and a 'gap' where the building fell.  The new building is still intact...but the church did have a lot of damage to it.

a truck just outside our neighborhood...a utility pole fell on it during the storm...the ridges in the lower part of the photo are the downed utility lines

the fence at the south entrance of our neighborhood..blown down by the storm..just behind that is the remains of the treeline along our creek

...was a field across the road from the entrance to our subdivision....flooding was pretty bad the day of the storm and a few days after

One month ago today, we had tornadoes come through our area.  These photos were taken the day of and the day after.  They were taken in my neighborhood and on the street just across the road where the tornado touched down.  We are grateful that we were not hurt, though we have just discovered some possible damage to our home as a result of the storm (possible crack in water pipes/cracks in exterior wall) that we are dealing with now.  We survived seven days without power :) and even learned to like it (a little bit!!).