Thursday, September 22, 2005

   :~:-:~:-:~:-:~: Incredible :~:-:~:-:~:-:~:
did anybody hear about the huge storm in the twin cities? i did. i was IN IT! it seemed cool. at first, i went outside and it was only lightning and thunder. then it began to sprinkle. i went inside and filled on the weather channel. the humidity and dew point was high. (yuck!) but there was this MASSIVE super cell coming STRAIGHT FOR US! i was getting really excited. it got really intense! soon, there was SO much rain and SO much wind, you couldn't even see out the windows. none of them. this was the most extreme storm i had ever seen. then the HAIL came. i think it was the 3rd time i saw it hail here. and the pizza we ordered was getting cold. then the thunder or the hail knocked a loose piece of sheetrock from out skylight. it made me jump. i admit it, i was kinda scared. i didn't really know what was going to happen. i just kept running up and down the stairs. mainly between the basement and main floor. it ended a little, and i went outside to see the damage. our tree in the front is at a 45 degree angle. like this: / it's nuts! my neighbor's fence was practically gone, and in our backyard, we had a good chunk of tree broken off. later, another shot of heavy rain and hail came in. this time, the TORNADO sirens went off. i ran outside since it wasn't raining a lot. i didn't see a tornado. but at this point, i wouldn't be disappointed if i didn't. after a while. (after Yu-Gi-Oh!) i scootered down my street. at the end, 2 trees were down. i saw maybe 3 b-ball hoops down, and mine. (it's not in the ground) had moved a good 4 feet. i went down my friend's Alison's street, but i couldn't really because there was a tree in the way of the road. she had 2 trees all the way down. this was a severe storm. i wish i had film, but i didn't. BUT before, the streets were flooded. i haven't seen the roads flooded here before either. i went in (IT WAS FREEZING!) and it went up to my ankle. i talked to my neighbor and she said that when her husband was out there, it was like 2x deeper than that. i thought, "wow. i REALLY wish i had film." the storm passed, with our power not going out, just flickering. I woke up this morning. (thinking I had missed the bus, but we had no SCHOOL! YES!!!!!!! and i scootered to Target, but then went to Krispy Kreme ^_^ then went back and bought film,......and a pack of yu-gi-oh cards...^_~) i took pictures of the damage. there were a lot of trees down or bent, leaves paved the streets, and there were marsh-like puddles in well, dry marsh-like places. my friend's fence actually held pretty good....except there a good tree fell. she also had about 3 REALLY tall pine trees that were snapped in half. it was cool and kinda devastating with all this insanity, only one person was dead. sad. there were 3 houses that were practically demolished. here's a link:

http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_264204221.html

Thi is like a slide show site.

http://wcco.com/slideshows/local_slideshow_264215631/view?slide=0

And a few pics to go with that....:









can you believe it? I haven't seen something like this happen in MY neighborhood. I know some or maybe even all you people have gone though worse. maybe if you live on the South coast..... if i DID wnat to put more pics on here, I would have to develop the ones I have and scan them at my friend's house. That's all for now.
TTYL
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