Stormy Weather

It was a dark and stormy night. WoW!! The weather service said there were 8,000 lightening strikes! WoW! I was also told that our neighborhood made the national news because the storm was so horrific! WoW! We lost one of the maples in the front yard, which then fell onto the line that goes to our house AND snapped the pole at the corner.

Allegheny Power was out pretty darn quickly, I was really impressed by the show of force. They cleared the debris from the line and pole, but said our power outage was not due to our tree, it was further up the road. They left every piece of wood and leaf in the yard for us.

We were without power for nine hours. We used the generator to power the fridge and the computer. We also had trees down in the pasture and elsewhere. Chainsaw to the rescue. We really had other things planned, and not doing a lick of work on the bathroom project. darn!

It rained again later in the day, this time we didn't lose power. The gutters were full of debris and overflowed, filling up the window wells. In turn, they filled up like an aquarium and leaked into the basement. So the basement was flooded. Great, didn't have anything else to do, right? No time to work on the bathroom project this day.