Aaaaugh!

[geoviki]

ZOMG! Just a quick post to say I'm home from Azkatraz. Last night there was a horrific hail/wind storm here, and what was once a pretty nice honeylocust tree in our back yard is now prostrate on the lawn (having barely missed the house, thank god), as are numerous trees in the area. Any summer flower (and my special daylily bed in particular) is trashed. No vegetable garden. There are just leaves everywhere - on the lawns, in the street, plastered on the house - and the whole town smells woody like fallen trees.

Pictures forthcoming. Until then you can read about it here. A lot of those photos are from right around me.

Great quote: "It was wild," the 73-year-old said as she surveyed the damage at her home on Jellison Street near West 32nd Avenue on Tuesday. "It was just like one of those Harry Potter movies."

Comments

[painless-j.livejournal.com]

Oh my. I'm glad the tree missed the house when falling! A storm at our summer house had the toilet cabin overturn once, and it's neither small not light :) not to mention that all flowers and fruit trees got broken, like at yours.

People tell anecdotes about you at the con ;P

[cordelia_v]

I let her read the post I put up while we were still there. :P

And Ziki, I'm really glad that the tree missed your house, and that you're all OK. The flowers will grow back, thank God.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how close that tree came - I'm going to go back and take a picture of the 1 inch scrape on the tree where it touched the house.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

My husband had the kindness not to tell me about the storm until we were on the way home from the airport - I would have worried for nothing because it was all over and done by then anyway.

I am not as extroverted as Cordelia claims! I just like to talk to people in bars. Er.....