Little Big Storm
A fairly big storm rolled through last night. Around 7 PM, the sky started turning real dark and the winds started kicking up something fierce. I flipped on the news and they said that the conditions were just about perfect for a tornado touchdown right near my suburb. The way the winds were blowing, I would have thought that one had touched down already! Soon after, I lost power (which didn’t return for the whole night). After things calmed down a bit, I went over to my fianceé’s place to see what the situation was like over there. There wasn’t as much damage, but there was no power at her place either. In fact, the entire stretch of land from my house to her house was also out of power. I don’t know how extensive the power outage was last night, but it covered the seven or eight suburbs that I drove through to get to her place. That’s a pretty eerie feeling - no street lights, no traffic lights, no house lights. Just pitch black with trees and other debris on the roads for miles.
According to news sites, it looks like the power is still out in my neighborhood and the power company is saying now that it could be out for one to five days?! Ugh. They’re still not sure if a tornado touched down last night or what. There are folks from the National Weather Service coming out later today to look at the damage pattern to see what exactly came through our area.
And still, this doesn’t even hold a candle to the damage caused by Katrina and possibly what is to come from Rita. I can’t even imagine…