It Was a Dark and Stormy.....

....day. Ha!! Fooled ya, didn't I?! You thought the ending of that sentence would have the word 'night'. I just know you did, seeing as all of us had that written on a chalkboard at some point in our school career, to encourage creative writing.

All kidding aside, yesterday around 6ish, it truly became a dark and stormy day. Sure isn't a surprise, what with all that humidity we've been having. Now, like I wrote earlier, am I ever thankful we came home early from our camping trip! Otherwise we'd be still emptying our trailer when this storm came up!

The first storm was the fierciest and I only got two pictures. I would have taken more but I was hiding under my bed. You see, storms like this terrify me.

The wind picked up, along with it picking up trees. We didn't see any damage until later, when we dared to venture out. Once this storm passed, the sun came out. But this was just the beginning of a night of storms! You know the term "a storm came rolling in". Well, to be honest, I don't think I have ever seen a storm roll in. That is, until last night. Now I completely understand that phrase. This time I did not hide under my bed, but put on  my brave face and snapped some pictures. It was truly amazing to see. The pictures do not do justice at all, but I tried to capture it. The clouds were billowing into each other like plumes of smoke. They truly were rolling. Eerie but beautiful!

While these clouds were rolling about, the skies on the other side of our backyard looked like this:

But it didn't take long for the clouds to continue to roll over to that side of the sky:

We had friends over for the evening, and thankfully they saw smoke coming from the wires beside our driveway. Tree limbs had fallen over the wires and started a very small fire.

We called the fire department and they came around 10 last night. They are still sitting at the end of our driveway this morning, guarding the area as the trees could be all charged due to the live wires. They will be here until the hydro people get here.

Of course, the guys had to go out and investigate. Friends of ours family lives up the road and a tree landed into one of their bedrooms. Thankfully everyone was safe. And just up the road, we saw this:

Again, thankfully, the driver came out of the car with just cuts and bruises. It could have been so much worse, but it wasn't.

So right now, in the aftermath, our road is still closed. We do have power, until the hydro guys come and shut it off in order to deal with our wires. The air still smells of smoke, and the volunteer firefighters are eating my brownies :o)

We are ever so thankful to God for sparing us and all of our loved ones. His strength, power and fortitude was once again shown through the storms last night. I hope all of you are safe! May God continue to be with all those involved in cleaning up and restoring power.

"Praise the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty. He wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heaves like a tent and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind. He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants." Ps. 104: 1-4