It's a Saturday night, around 9PM or so, Ryan & I are in our pajamas, on the couch, cuddling with the puppy and watching the DVR. Ok, ok, so it was Jersey Shore on the DVR, it's true... I almost died watching Jersey Shore on a Saturday night-- and I'm ok with it.
We are watching TV and this storm is getting insane around us. We hear the rain and it sounds like it's coming into the apartment-- it's coming in sideways-- it's loud and I say to Ryan "maybe we should turn on the weather." So off goes Jersey Shore and I turn it on to Channel 5 News-- you know the news channel with Garrett Lewis. One look at his sleeves and you know if you're in trouble or not... I hear Garrett's calm voice and the only words he says are "there's rotation..." and off go the lights, the TV and we're now sitting in the dark. (A link to Garrett Lewis' update)
We thought about our options, I called my parents to see if they had electricity and we contemplated driving over there. If the electricity was going to be out for hours on end we would just pack up a few things and head over to my parents, for air conditioning and TV... but we opted to stay in. Just go to bed early. Our awesome Saturday night. We were admittedly totally unaware. We walked outside to see if the entire apartment complex was without electricity, spoke to a neighbor, got Rusty to take his last outside break and then went to bed.
I woke up Sunday morning to a few tweets about destruction right down the road from us-- to put into perspective for those who don't know, if you stayed at the Staybridge for our wedding, we live right across the street and down about a quarter of a mile. The most destruction was up the same road as the hotel-- at my dad's office. Maybe a mile from us an entire Doctor's office was destroyed. They lost their roof, some buildings lost windows, and every where you looked trees down. The wind was blowing so oddly it actually spun out a car and caused a bank to lose it's sign.
The doctor's Office
The car that spun
The car went for an unintended ride
Highland Oncology lost windows!
Trees were uprooted, branches were broke
Big trees, little tress... trees on their side.
This stop sign was on top of a car last night
We are so thankful that we survived completely intact-- without any harm to us and barely any harm to anyone. We were totally oblivious, the destruction was in a mostly business area on a weekend night-- God was looking out for all of us.
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