Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35319541-20180629211941

Yesterday in the afternoon a bad storm passed thru here, after my mad gifting and knocked down trees, limbs, power. we had no power for the past 24 hours, just came back on. talk about excitement, couldn't even open windows to let the cool air from the storm in cause we had 60 mile an hour winds blowing rain into everywhere it could get in. Lucky for us here in Benton, we mostly got power outages, my daughter lost hers as well and still has not gotten back on, I am on a different line, but her power line got knocked out by a huge tree branch and is stil laying in the street. What a miracle it was too-we had just gotten back from the store and got the car unloaded, had we had her car instead of mine the branch would have crashed on top of her brand new car-she had just gotten it the day before-but her husband had taken it to work. I parked my car at my house, visited a moment with a neighbor and wow all heck broke out. Tree branches on one side of the house came down at the same time as the branch in the front of her house and rains so hard you couldn't see across the street. the city is doing a clean up and Ameren is being kept quite busy fixing all the downed lines! We are all very lucky, I don't have TV or news (well without power) so I don't think there were any casualties from the storm right here anyway, maybe a bad accident on the highway as we heard all the fire and police sirens at one point. But, TG we are back and ready for action. Spent the AM cleaning up all the branches in the yard. Now I have a fan blowing on me to cool down as it was 93 by noon and expecting a high heat index in the 100s. Might do a mega gifting again today😜💖lola 