Wow, what a week we had.
It all started out as a normal week. School, work, Ty had his first eye dr. appointment. Yep, he's getting glasses. He won't have to wear them all the time, but the more he wears them the better, Dr. R said. So, we are waiting to hear that they are ready.
It all started out as a normal week. School, work, Ty had his first eye dr. appointment. Yep, he's getting glasses. He won't have to wear them all the time, but the more he wears them the better, Dr. R said. So, we are waiting to hear that they are ready.
Then came Wednesday.
It started off pretty much as usual. I was laying in bed letting Audrey nurse and Jeremy was about to get up and start getting ready for work. Around 5:30 or so, I guess. I'm not sure. There was a nice little thunderstorm going outside. Jeremy's cell phone rang, and it was Pam, our preacher's wife, saying she was about to come over bc of the bad weather. (We have a big basement so at our house bad weather = block party!) Jeremy jumped up and started getting dressed. I decided I'd go ahead and let Audrey finish nursing and then get dressedPam is a little storm-nervous, so she always comes way before it gets bad. Well, then things started happening fast. So fast in fact, I'm not sure what order everything happened in. Our boys woke up and were headed downstairs (they are early risers, anyway), and then the power went out. It was looking really nasty out there. Jeremy's parents showed up, and he went up the driveway and got his aunt to bring down here. He got a call from Pam saying there was a tree down across the road and she had to turn around. It got pretty bad here for a little while. Then it looked like it was going to clear up for a while. Everyone went home with promises of being back later in the day when it got bad again....And it did.
This turned out to be one of the worst storm systems to come through in a LONG time. I think since 1932, they said. North Alabama got a swarm of tornados in about 5 waves of bad weather, hitting the same towns and communities over and over. And middle Alabama got one pretty bad tornado, too. It was so reminiscent of a year ago (almost to the day) when the storms came through Albertville and tore up jack, only more widespread. Most of North Alabama has been without power for a while. Ours just came back on last night. Some places had their water declared undrinkable. Last I heard there were over 300 deaths from this system, with 2/3 of them in Alabama. Hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed.
It hits close to home for me, not only because my hometown got a lot of bad damage, but because this is the second year in a row my home escaped by less than mile. Both times we have had trees down in our pasture. Last year, there was a line where the tornado touched down just a couple hundred yards from our house, in the pasture. This time, some neighbors had barns completely destroyed. It got bad enough this time we got in the storm room, not just the basement. Jeremy's cousin and sister watched rotation start forming directly over our house. Thankfully, it didn't touch down here, but it was one that did so much damage in Guntersville and north as we watched it move away. Last year our power was out 3 days; this time, 5. But we are so blessed and thankful that everyone in our family is alright.
The good news is, the state of Alabama and the country have come together beautifully in refief efforts. Alabama the beautiful will be back on her feet in no time.
In other news, Audrey crawled for the first time AND got her first tooth yesterday! That, the power coming back on, and the news of Osama bin Laden's death made yesterday an extraordinary day.
It started off pretty much as usual. I was laying in bed letting Audrey nurse and Jeremy was about to get up and start getting ready for work. Around 5:30 or so, I guess. I'm not sure. There was a nice little thunderstorm going outside. Jeremy's cell phone rang, and it was Pam, our preacher's wife, saying she was about to come over bc of the bad weather. (We have a big basement so at our house bad weather = block party!) Jeremy jumped up and started getting dressed. I decided I'd go ahead and let Audrey finish nursing and then get dressedPam is a little storm-nervous, so she always comes way before it gets bad. Well, then things started happening fast. So fast in fact, I'm not sure what order everything happened in. Our boys woke up and were headed downstairs (they are early risers, anyway), and then the power went out. It was looking really nasty out there. Jeremy's parents showed up, and he went up the driveway and got his aunt to bring down here. He got a call from Pam saying there was a tree down across the road and she had to turn around. It got pretty bad here for a little while. Then it looked like it was going to clear up for a while. Everyone went home with promises of being back later in the day when it got bad again....And it did.
This turned out to be one of the worst storm systems to come through in a LONG time. I think since 1932, they said. North Alabama got a swarm of tornados in about 5 waves of bad weather, hitting the same towns and communities over and over. And middle Alabama got one pretty bad tornado, too. It was so reminiscent of a year ago (almost to the day) when the storms came through Albertville and tore up jack, only more widespread. Most of North Alabama has been without power for a while. Ours just came back on last night. Some places had their water declared undrinkable. Last I heard there were over 300 deaths from this system, with 2/3 of them in Alabama. Hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed.
It hits close to home for me, not only because my hometown got a lot of bad damage, but because this is the second year in a row my home escaped by less than mile. Both times we have had trees down in our pasture. Last year, there was a line where the tornado touched down just a couple hundred yards from our house, in the pasture. This time, some neighbors had barns completely destroyed. It got bad enough this time we got in the storm room, not just the basement. Jeremy's cousin and sister watched rotation start forming directly over our house. Thankfully, it didn't touch down here, but it was one that did so much damage in Guntersville and north as we watched it move away. Last year our power was out 3 days; this time, 5. But we are so blessed and thankful that everyone in our family is alright.
The good news is, the state of Alabama and the country have come together beautifully in refief efforts. Alabama the beautiful will be back on her feet in no time.
In other news, Audrey crawled for the first time AND got her first tooth yesterday! That, the power coming back on, and the news of Osama bin Laden's death made yesterday an extraordinary day.
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