Our neighborhood had some broken trees, some fences down, lots of shingles blown off. We lost some small branches, the grapevines suffered some, but we were very lucky. Our roof held up, and only lost a few pears off the trees. Cameron was planning on spending the night with his friend, but as soon as it had blown over and was safe, the mom was dropping him off. lol.
Just before the sun set, the clouds parted, and we were rewarded with some patches of blue sky and beautiful colors, and reassured with a full rainbow. I took pictures that night, and the next morning.
We were without power until about noon the next day. Just long enough for the kids to get really bored, then realize going outside and using their imagination wasn't so bad. Ivan picked up a generator from work for the fridge and freezer, so my biggest concern was solved. It's kind of fun to change up the routine sometimes. ;)
I didn't change any of the colors of these pictures, I only cropped.
They hung in there!
The boys were fascinated by the lamp and the flame.
Brushing teeth by lantern light. Never so much fun!
In my room. I thought the shadows on the wall were interesting.
Safety in numbers. They all decided to sleep in Tanner's room, I think because it's downstairs and less scary then upstairs...even considering mom and dad are upstairs.
Sunrise the next morning. No air conditioning, so we slept with all the windows and the sliding door in our room open. Listening to the constant thunder all night was awesome. Waking up to the humidity and feeling like we slept in a sauna was not. Ick. Overnight another set of storms sprung up and all morning towns east of us had massive flooding, high water rescues, evacuations. We just had some light rain, and a view of a fantastic lightning show.
This was the next night's sunset.
