A bit of Summmer, Autumn, AND Winter
I got to talking to a friend of mine today about the weather, and how crazy it's been this year. Usually by now, we have frost advisories, and are heading straight into snow. But as I sit here at 7:30pm, we are sitting at 84 degrees outside. I am fighting turning on the air... which I really refuse to do cuz it's halfway into October.
Anyway, we got to talking about crazy weather, and I brought up what they are calling "The Storm of the Century" (and actually 2 centuries) in my area. It hit right after Reagan was born. She was born on the 20th, and the storm hit October 24th, dropping over a foot of snow on us in less than 24 hours. My little baby was only 4 days old.
The storm started with rain, and turned into ice... and it hit before all of the leaves fell off the trees, so the heavy rain/ice/snow clung to all of the trees and pulled them to the ground. I have never seen so many uprooted trees in my area in my life. It was crazy.
I woke up at 2am to a thundering CRASH in my front yard. I ran to the front of the house to see what it was. I hadn't ever heard anything so loud. I struggled to see thru the iced over windows, and finally saw that a big part of the tree had fallen in my front yard. Right next to my neighbor's car.
I ran upstairs to wake my neighbor. "Move your car, move your car from underneath the tree... I think the rest of it's gonna fall... and I would hate for your car to be under it when it does." She thanked me for telling her, and she rushed to get clothes on and hurried out to get her car moved into the street.
When I woke up the next morning, he car had half a tree on top of it... I felt so bad. And the driveway where her car had been sitting, nothing but snow. I felt horrible.
My street was blocked in... we had huge trees fall at both ends of the block... these aren't little trees either... they were trees that stood for hundreds of years. Right down the street a massive pine tree fell down in the street. After closer inspection, you could see nothing other than a car, hidden under the pines. All covered by more snow.
The most amazing thing about the whole storm... the whole city lost power... there were thousands and thousands of people without power. The blocks around us for miles didn't have power. But for some small miracle, our block had been spared. We were the only block within miles that never lost power. I don't know about the whole city, as the roads were impassable, and I wasn't about to leave anywhere with my new little helpless baby at home... but most of the city lost power... if it wasn't just for a brief minute. and some people didn't even have power for about 10 days. TEN DAYS WITHOUT POWER. Because of some SNOW! I can't help but to think that something up there, way up there, was looking down on my little 4 day old baby, and saved her from the cold... and spared us our electricity. It truly was amazing.
If ya would like to see some pictures or read a bit more about the storm... CLICK HERE
Anyway, It's getting so pretty here. I had to share pics. These bushes are usually bright green.. but in Autumn they get all purdy-like :) And no snow in sight ;)
Anyway, we got to talking about crazy weather, and I brought up what they are calling "The Storm of the Century" (and actually 2 centuries) in my area. It hit right after Reagan was born. She was born on the 20th, and the storm hit October 24th, dropping over a foot of snow on us in less than 24 hours. My little baby was only 4 days old.
The storm started with rain, and turned into ice... and it hit before all of the leaves fell off the trees, so the heavy rain/ice/snow clung to all of the trees and pulled them to the ground. I have never seen so many uprooted trees in my area in my life. It was crazy.
I woke up at 2am to a thundering CRASH in my front yard. I ran to the front of the house to see what it was. I hadn't ever heard anything so loud. I struggled to see thru the iced over windows, and finally saw that a big part of the tree had fallen in my front yard. Right next to my neighbor's car.
I ran upstairs to wake my neighbor. "Move your car, move your car from underneath the tree... I think the rest of it's gonna fall... and I would hate for your car to be under it when it does." She thanked me for telling her, and she rushed to get clothes on and hurried out to get her car moved into the street.
When I woke up the next morning, he car had half a tree on top of it... I felt so bad. And the driveway where her car had been sitting, nothing but snow. I felt horrible.
My street was blocked in... we had huge trees fall at both ends of the block... these aren't little trees either... they were trees that stood for hundreds of years. Right down the street a massive pine tree fell down in the street. After closer inspection, you could see nothing other than a car, hidden under the pines. All covered by more snow.
The most amazing thing about the whole storm... the whole city lost power... there were thousands and thousands of people without power. The blocks around us for miles didn't have power. But for some small miracle, our block had been spared. We were the only block within miles that never lost power. I don't know about the whole city, as the roads were impassable, and I wasn't about to leave anywhere with my new little helpless baby at home... but most of the city lost power... if it wasn't just for a brief minute. and some people didn't even have power for about 10 days. TEN DAYS WITHOUT POWER. Because of some SNOW! I can't help but to think that something up there, way up there, was looking down on my little 4 day old baby, and saved her from the cold... and spared us our electricity. It truly was amazing.
If ya would like to see some pictures or read a bit more about the storm... CLICK HERE
Anyway, It's getting so pretty here. I had to share pics. These bushes are usually bright green.. but in Autumn they get all purdy-like :) And no snow in sight ;)
Happy Autumn,
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