We just got hit really bad with a severe thunderstorm/tornado. As usual, and thankfully, it bypassed me. But I can’t believe the damage.
First, I was driving home in it and had to drive around three downed trees and drive over downed power lines. The streets were a mess with debri, branches and leaves. When I got home, we had no power and it’s still out...been 5 and half hours now.
My friend/coworker got stuck in a neighboring town. She had a dentist appointment so left work a little early, but their power went out so they couldn’t do her cleaning. She left and tried to get home but kept getting detoured becuase of downed trees and wires. That was at 4:30. She’s still not home and she only lives twenty minutes away.
She ended up running out of gas. With the power out, all of the gas stations were closed but she found one thast was able to siphon gas from another car, enought to get her on the road again. The weird thing is, she went round and round so much she ended up about two miles form my house and was stuck in traffic. I told her to turn around and come here. She made it here and I made her some decaf coffee and fed her cookies. We also had two gallons of gas for the lawn mower so we put that in her car too. She’s back on the road attempting to get home. I hope she makes it! Waiting for her text before I try and go to sleep. I don’t want to fall asleep too early because I don’t want to wake up inthe middle of the night with still no power because I will probably have a hard time falling back to sleep.
Tornados hit a neighboring town...two task forces were called out and 12 ambulances. Trees are uprooted all over. My son has a friend whose uncle lost the roof of his house. It’s crazy that I’m safe and sound with just a power outage.
. My sister and her husband are going to the summer cottage but we didn't insist on going with them. They need some privacy, i guess. My mom is going to the exhibition of her artist cousin. And i'm on my own today. But i'm not complaining. I'm "not trying to walk before i can crawl". I think, walking with go-carts to the grocer for the pomegranate juice will be quite enough for today, unless i'll turn into an ice cube.
Yesterday evening i was wearing a winter coat
, and today i woke up and was freezing at first. But then, when i went for a walk, i had to put off everything and stay in a T-shirt. The sun was shining right in the eye
So, sitting under this fierce sun for an hour is quite enough. I just hope that on 9th of May the weather will be good, because it's a great day for our people: everybody is going to the parade which symbolizes the victory over fascism.
I'm glad that you hadn't suffered. If you don't mind, please let us know how is it going.
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