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Midwest Weather - another week


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Yesterday was a pretty normal Saturday around here. I was in a neighboring town and headed home watching an upcoming storm. I mentioned to the person I was with that it looked like it was right over my house. We had a few sprinkles on the windshield, yet it wasn't actually raining. We watched cloud-to-cloud lightning and some cloud-to-ground and pulled into the garage and "safety".

Having been in the car and hearing water, first place I headed to was the bathroom - walking through the living room, the entire house lit up and the thunder hit immediately. I yelled to Mark to check on his son who had just went outside to walk a puppy with a smaller bladder...

Son and dog were fine - but ten minutes later, my mother called me and was breathless. All she could really spit out was "you need to come down here" - they live next door, the living room side of my house.

How close was that lightning? About 100 yards from my house. This is my parents' garage:

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This tree is right next to the driveway - it EXPLODED, shooting wood pieces everywhere, a mere five minutes after my nephews rode out of the driveway on their bicycles:

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Two-thirds of the tree is missing, shredded from the base and peeling like a banana - this tree was close to 60 feet tall.

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You can see there's wood on the roof of the garage - there's siding damage, as well. What you can't see are the branches behind the garage and the giant "lawn darts" in the front yard.

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Always something exciting going on for the country folk... Five years ago, the centuries old oak tree in the field behind this house was struck by lightning - it happened while my mother was looking at it. This time, she didn't see the strike, just wood flying everywhere past the living room windows. What's funny is that I was telling the person with me the story of that lightning strike on the way home and then THIS happened. Cheap foreshadowing for a TV movie...

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Becky:

Thank goodness everyone is OK. I am starting to wonder about you, gal.....elevator incident, now this (and I swear there is another thing or two that memory isn't being kind to me at the moment about you)...

That's enough excitement, don't you think?

Linda

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