Perfect weather, it was so nice we decided to go to the pool at 6.... heard a small amount of thunder no big deal pool was closed for it so we played in the sprinklers at our house with friends. Power went out at 7:15...didn't get it back till 2 am ( yes it was HORRIBLE trying to sleep in the house...I was so gratefull when the power came back on and we got our AC back!) I didn't realize the damage of the storm till we went to church today, several families still don't have power (17+ hours) and tree's are down everywhere ...literally on some streets every house had trees damaged. Cumberland Elementary School (Ehre's school) had at least 50% of their trees broken in 1/2, one tree fell into the school damaging 3 classrooms. One of the baseball dugouts (cinder block type) looked like a giant just stepped on the whole thing.....ohh so much clean up to do!
Here are some pics, there is a lot of clean up to do. I went over to the new house and my heart started to race and I was really worried. As I pulled onto our street I saw the piles of limbs lining ready for pickup tomorrow, and lots of people cutting trees into firewood. But there was our little house, with the HUGE tree in the front yard, perfectly fine. There are some small branches and leaves all over the yard (we can rake them up tomorrow) but we were so lucky. I think we may be one of the only homes on the street without tree damage. :)
This is what the news report said,
"Winds reached up to 75 MPH and there was over two inches of rain in just under an hour. All of this meant lots of damage for Tippecanoe county residents.
Much of U.S. Highway 52 became hard to drive through as traffic lights were out and streets began to flood over the curb.
"We started to pull out on 52 when we saw literally the waves and the people trying to go through the intersection and so we decided to pull over and get away from it all," said Lisa Drayer.
Lafayette police department said there were three structure fires, as well as at least one case of a power line on fire.
"It wasn't too scary, We didn't realize how bad it was until we saw the smoke, so we got out of there pretty early which was good," said Marcel Garcia. Garcia's basement caught on fire.
There were multiple street closures, most due to fallen trees and tree limbs blocking the lanes of traffic. "
Weather blog link: http://blogs.wlfi.com/2010/07/18/july-17-2010-west-lafayettelafayette-microburst/
2 comments:
Oh my goodness! We were in complete shock on the way to church today... we only live a few miles away and had no clue it got that bad. Our power went out twice for about a second and we got a little rain. But hardly any wind. We did see all the lightning in your direction and it was crazy to watch. We could see the clouds twisting in the sky and that was pretty scary looking. We were out bike riding when we decided to get home quick :) I am glad your house and tree are okay!
Wow! This is going to sound crazy, but I kind of miss those big storms. Maybe not THAT big, but I miss weather of any kind.
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