Catch up

Quick catch up from the past week or so:

We have had some massive storms blow through here, but have been extremely lucky at the same time. The tornadoes that brought so much devastation to Alabama were the kind of storms the experts had been warning us about, and we were expecting. To say we feel lucky is an understatement of course.

A couple of times we were forced into our safe room, and one time a 40 foot pine fell onto the side of our house. Since it was dead, however, it broke apart when it hit, otherwise I fear our central unit and our home both would have been damaged. We were without electricity for about 12 hours, and absolutely cannot complain about a small inconvenience like that.

In the adjoining county, Mr. GV's mother, father, sister, brother, and brother's fiancee (3 homes) were without electricity, and therefore water, for about 5 days. Brother and his fiancee stayed with us for 3 nights during this time. The whole family was invited but the rest chose to tough it out at home!

Our counties were both hit with many trees down, roads blocked, homes damaged or destroyed, and now we are struggling with flooded roads. Our home is on a hill so we will not have our home flooded thankfully.

Otherwise, life goes on as normal!