Stormy Weather

Last night we had a gillywhomper of a storm. We had a tornado warning for our county and I heard the warning siren go off for the first time. I don't know where that one is located but I'll bet it's REALLY loud if you live close to it! I was praying hard that our Bradford Pear trees would not go down. Thankfully they did not! But as of this writing I can tell you that there are many that are on the ground in our county!! I drove around some today and oodles of them were down, or limbs broken off them. They are such a pretty tree but they cannot withstand the wind too much. A friend of mine that lives about 3 miles from us had her last one to fall and it's still blocking her back door. She said, "If I live to be 100, I'll never have another Bradford Pear tree!" This was the last of 10 that the wind has gotten. She also had a big pine tree fall onto her neighbor's house. It didn't do much in the way of damage but it's huge. On our road the only big thing I saw was this cedar tree that had fallen on this house. This is 4 doors down from us. When it fell it hit another tree and broke a huge limb off it and took it along for the ride, so they have a real mess. There's also electric lines under there. No one was home when it fell. That's probably a good thing. Can you imagine a tree like that falling on your house? I'd probably have to change my Hanes!!