{Peace} Love & Family

The last couple weeks has just been "not so great" for The Ummel's.  

A couple weeks ago we had several days that the wind was blowing like crazy.  And when I say like crazy, I mean like CRAZY!  

I had just face timed M on the phone.  Had opened our front door to show her how yucky it was here.  And her showing me how she had her windows opened and how nice it was at her house.  As I shut the door we heard a weird pop and the lights flickered.  Of course that makes you stop in your tracks.  Who likes to go without electricity?? Not me!  And again I heard another big pop.  I opened the front door to see little flames in the air near our electric pole.  

Then the electricity went out.  The wind had blown a very small branch out of our trees.  And right into the transformer on our pole.  YiYiYi!  Thank you Midwest Energy for getting here fast.  Let's just say that little ole branch flipped the breaker all the way thru Quinter.  Even the hospital had to go on their generator.  

Yep.  That was me!  :-)

Then this last Monday evening we had some thunderstorms roll thru.  And boy did they roll!  Straight line winds??  I'm not thinking so.  But what do I know.  

The winds were strong enough to break a limb out of the tree and put it politely on/thru my roof.  Gosh it was terrible!  I think that evening was right up their from when we had our own tornadoes many years ago.  The electricity was out for several hours.  And the poor people driving interstate when it went thru.  Made my tummy just turn seeing all the ambulance and state trooper's flickering lights.  At one time I seen 6 at once.  Just down the road 2 miles they lost a big metal shed.  The whole south and east sides were north of their farm in a heap of mess.  Scary!! 

Obviously Roger couldn't do anything about the tree till the next day.  But then off course this is Kansas.  And the weather is just crazy.  Tuesday we were thrown with Blizzard warnings and ended up with about an inch of snow.  We were forcasted for 6-9 inches, but they said the thunderstorms the night before sucked the moisture out so we didn't get that much snow.  

BUT. . . . during the high winds. . . . the wind now blew the tree off our roof.  

And a limb, of the limb, went right thru our hottub lid.  Jeezzzz louise!! So this was then when Roger had to go into the attic and figure out a way to plug the hole till the adjuster could get here.  

Can I again say. . . . .    YIYIYI!