Kind of unusual for Connecticut, but we New Englanders like to keep everyone guessing when it comes to weather. Luckily, we didn't have any damage to our yard (probably because we lost 16 trees in a storm a couple of years ago) but three houses down was complete devastation. Not a single tree left untouched, many not left standing. Our power was out for a good portion of the weekend, but we fared so much better than our neighbors and people in nearby towns. Here's a picture of a house in another town that was completely devastated by a tornado, although the exact same type of house-cleaving happened here, too, just a few streets over:
(Pic thanks to courant.com)Crazy stuff. So we fell asleep to the sound of chainsaws Friday night and woke to them Saturday morning.
The aftermath of this is pretty crazy, as was the storm a couple of years ago when we lost all those trees. But those storms were very quick. The craziest for me was Hurricane Gloria in 1985. I was too young then to really comprehend what the storm meant to the people who would have to pay for the damage it caused, but I remember being frightened and awestruck by the sheer force of it and the sense of being completely at its mercy.
I'm curious to hear - what's the most extreme weather you've ever experienced?
2 comments:
Wait. What? Tornadoes? I've been very out of the loop lately. I'm glad everything at your house is ok and I hope your neighbors house gets fixed soon!
On the weather. Gustav was definitely it, but mostly for the aftermath and not the weather...although the tornado that hit on our wedding day is a close second. Glad I'm not at all superstitious, because most people would take that as a bad sign. Personally, I think we got kick-a## sunset pictures :)
I had no idea you had a tornado on your wedding day! It's supposed to be good luck for rain, so I'm going to go with you guys had uber-good-luck. ;)
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