Thursday, May 3, 2007

   The power company must die!
Its like every storm we always lose power but the neighbors don't! It's gotten better it used to be occasional blackouts rain or shine. That's since stopped.

I didn't call them immediatly after the blackout occured as I normally would as it was a raging bad storm outside. It's was about 6:50pm as we were watching the weather.

The wind was blowing like mad! Then suddenly the backdoor which I thought was locked but I guess wasn't, I guess it was just shut, it suddenly just blew open! I mean litterally blew open! Blew the rain in and everything. Mom said it got quiet before it happened, but maybe its me but all I heard was a raging storm. Plus the front door did not want stay closed! There is no clasp to keep the door closed, I don't know if there ever was. The only way to keep the door shut is to lock it. (Why not get a new door thingy? We have have one but mom says she needs a drill to do it.)

Anyway the lock is this side of comming out so it refused to shut. So I put a heavy pot of floor tile against it and it did nothing to keep the door shut! But I mean the wind was blowing hard and fast. After that I went to close it I kept hearing a kitty cry. I was thinking it was blackie but it was tipper. Oh she was scared. It's a bit unusal for her. But I let her in the house for a bit till the storm seem to subside some.

The after it all died down the neighbors on the otherwide that we always have problems with said that they had their front door open and saw something! They weren't really sure what they saw. The oldest kid was the one who came over and shocked us by asking if we were all right! Okay who are you and what did you do with our neighbors.

Anyway they think they saw a tornado but weren't exactly sure. The storms that moved through they said had been producing ones and then going right back up. But we never heard any sirens or anything so it could have easily been straight line winds. But my sister lives just a few miles from here and she had her overhang roof end up in the neighbors and some of her fence panels blew down. Her friend lives in grand prairie and she had said that in her neiborhood there were several trees blown down.

Here after the storm I went out to check and other than the flowerpot we put over the lawmower was blown over, a wire birdcage had been hanging up blew down. Other than that that's about all.

This morning there were a few twig limbs in front of the driveway but other than that, that's about all I could see in the way of damage. So there's no way to know if it really was a tornado or just straight line winds, but it was scarey!

We hoped the power would kick back in after the storm, but NO! I told you it went out at 6:30pm Wednesday, it now Thurday 10am and the power just now kicked back in!
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