Saturday, July 12, 2008

It's a Twister, It's a Twister...



On Thursday afternoon, at about 1:30, two tornadoes touched down in southeastern Minnesota. One touched down in Vasa - about 15 miles southeast of our home. Another touched down in Welch - about 15 miles directly east of our home.

Dana was home at the time with Karter and Rascal when the tornado warning came out. She took all of them into the guest bathroom downstairs to weather the storm.

While we did not get the tornado at our house, we did get 60-80 MPH straightline winds and penny-sized hail. The fields around our house have had the corn either laid down or stripped of their leaves. A few houses in Hampton had trees fall on their house, and there were many limbs and leaves down. Our next door neighbor had three mature trees fall.

At our house, we had LOTS of sticks and limbs down in the yard. Our garden was completely destroyed. And...we have half of one of our mature trees down - and still barely hanging on. While it is difficult to see by all of the pictures, we will have to cut down the tree - leaving us more firewood than we will know what to do with. That will be a big weekend project - the most difficult of which has been finding a chainsaw!!

We just thank God that he kept us and our neighbors (and our houses) safe. Lots of cleanup to do in our area the next few days and weeks...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Glad you all are ok after the storm!
I just looked at your pictures. The one of Karter sleeping on his tummy makes him look so big! and of course, he is so cute!