The Big Event

Last Thursday we had a ‘microburst’ go through.  If you don’t know what a microburst is, it’s like a tornado but without the actual twister.  It’s a good thing there was no twister because we literally couldn’t see out the window to see if it was coming.

Ella and I don’t like those kind of storms.  Here she is all ready for the run to the basement (we didn’t go).  She’s got her laptop packed up and on as well as her favourite Pokemon stuffy and of course Dasha -her ducky from her first Easter.  She was trying to be brave with her nervous smile and giggle, but if you knew Ella you’d know those weren’t real.  I’m so glad we live in a place where we don’t have to worry too much about tornadoes.

I tried to get a picture of the wind and rain, but it’s so hard through the screen.  We couldn’t get an accurate rain measurement -hard to catch in the rain gauge when it’s raining horizontally!

Tree through the back door and wiped out my clothes line.  Luckily it didn’t destroy my new laundry stoop and table.

These are the trees on the west side of the house (“back side” where the clothesline is).  There’s a lot on the ground too.  These branches are stuck up there until Colin can find a ‘man-lift/cherry picker’ to get up there because they are still attached a bit.  Hopefully he can get them down before we have another big storm.

The garden took a bit of a beating.  The corn stood back up, but it’s not too happy.

Want to know the weird thing about microbursts?

This tote and the 5 gal. pails were empty during the entire storm.  They didn’t move an inch!

The tarp building out back didn’t fair so well…

About 2/3 of the rafters broke.  You can guess what Colin has spent this week fixing?

Luckily the equipment was spared.

Out checking the damage.

It’s too bad the double rainbow didn’t show up in my cool panoramic picture.  The rainbow was so bright and at least the storm left the air feeling so much better.