We Were Clueless!

I mentioned last night in the blog that we had just had a strong storm blow through, but that it was over quickly.  Well...not long after I published last night's blog, Nathan and Isaac arrived filling us in on what had happened on our street and at our church.  They came in saying that they had to evacuate the church during the Wednesday night activities.  Due to the wind blowing down a tree (above photo) which took down power lines and that the telephone/electric poles had snapped off in the alleyway at our church and that power lines were lying on ground and also draped near church roof.

He also said that there was a tree down at one end of our street and another tree down on the street

that T's into ours.  There were work crews at both spots and that there was only one way to get to our street at that moment.  We never heard any trees fall or anything once the storm blew through.  I almost mentioned hearing sirens when writing the blog, but in the end didn't...and definitely didn't realize that they were actually on our street!  I think that something else must have fallen as after the power company cleared both the streets in our neighborhood, I later saw red lights flashing and looked out and at that point we had fire engines.  I think that the first was just a large limb that had cleared and that later an entire tree fell.  Here's the picture that I took out the guest room window last night:

And, here's a picture taken this morning:

It is said that we had 60 mile per hour straight line winds blow through when the front passed through.  Quite a bit of damage all over the town...the roof was blown off the restaurant that my Sunday School class ate at last Saturday morning.  Our church closed its doors today while repairs to the utility poles and wires were made.  Power was out for a lot...ours did not go out...the Internet was out for many who use the local fiber optic Internet...LOTS of trees were downed or at least large limbs were broken off.  The truck in the top photo ws parked across the street from the main building at our church.  It belonged to church members...our town made the Nashville news both last night and this morning.  I guess they were broadcasting from outside our church this morning.  As far as we know we had no damage except for lots of branches down in our yard.  And, the only surprise this morning for the neighbors (Nathan and Kathy and family) is shown in my last photo for the night:

Oops!  Their trampoline decided to do some jumping on its own!  This is Kathy's photo that I captured from Facebook.  I'm just noticing that the yellow on the ground used to be a slide attached to the playground...guess it was a causality, too...glad it didn't do any damage to the house.  I guess the porch stopped it from flying on over to our house.  Our house is the cream colored siding beyond their porch.

Hopefully things will stay calm around here for a while. Woody and I both said how strange it was that we had no clue that all this happened...just sitting tight in our house...oblivious!!