July Storm

Well I would have posted this yesterday, but I just didn't get to it. Yesterday morning I woke up to a horrible massive thunderstorm around 8am. The winds were unbelievable, the rain just poured and the thunder and lighting were just as powerful. This has been the second huge storm in the last few months. My town got really hit, and we had tons of damage in some parts of town, especially my neighbourhood. In my backyard we have three large maple trees, the middle tree lost a huge branch which is actually hanging on by a inch is resting on an telephone wire. We are still unable to get help getting it down.

My good really good friends across the street got a lot more damage done. They had just managed to just get to the basement when all of a sudden they heard a big bang and then lots of rumbling on their roof. A large branch from their backyard maple tree hit the peek of their roof and rolled down the roof and swiped off the top of their chimney and knocked over the fence below, right in front of their back door.

There was also two other large tree branches that were knock down on just my street alone. One was just two houses down where the tip of the tree just graced the front windows. The second tree branch was on the end corner of my block where the branch got stock on a hydro wire which ended up causing the power on my block to be out for over 10 hrs.

The next streets around my street had large branches down too. But some parts of town just really didn't get hit like my area, and didn't get any power outages. A small community just about 10 mins from town, had roof tops lifted off. They are out of power until Thursday, due to the massive damage done to the community.