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May 4, 2011 - 08:13 PM |
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What a week. |
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Last Wed morning, about 8:50 am. I get awoken by my door being pounded on and yelled at to get in the basement. I do so and hear a god awful sound outside, like a freight train. Yep. Tornado went through.
After about 10 minutes I look outside and the lady across the street had a huge tree uprooted and smashed all in her yard and out in the road. So I go over to help her move it out of the road and other neighbors came out and did the same. We help her clean her backyard (since most of the damage was just fallen and uprooted trees, etc) then head our seperate ways.
3:30 pm, sky grows black again and another wave of tornadoes. Luckily these didn't touch down around here. A few hours later more. Then about 11pm we needed some drinks and thought since there were some break in the clouds, it wouldn't be bad going to wal-mart to get them. Get about halfway there and the rain starts coming down hard and in sheets facing the car. A split second later, the wind switches going left to right. Get to the store and its still pouring down horribly. After I get out of the store, the rain has died down and get home, of course with candles since we're out of power.
Next day I start picking things out of the yard and while out there start talking to the neighbors again, when someone pulled up in a truck and said that the town 5 miles from here got hit with an F5. News crews weren't allowed in at the time because they wanted to see how much damage had actually been done. The tornado had stayed on the ground for 35 miles, completely demolishing everything.
Power company finally got out this way to turn everything back on. Just been a crazy week. 
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