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Jon and I had gone out to get dinner last night, and while we were out a storm came up. We got to drive back with tree limbs on the street. Rain fell so hard that it swept across the road in rain drifts, like snow drifts. I don’t think I’d ever seen rain fall like that, so hard and solid that it swept across the road like snow. We’re all alright. But our patio furniture ended up in the water garden. The big umbrella is ruined. Amazingly the glass topped table did not break. Let’s hear it for safety glass. But Jon and I got to wrestle the furniture out of the water in the midst of the storm; lightning, wind, rain, all bombarding us while we wrestled metal framed furniture out of water. Exciting. The water lilies seem to have survived having the furniture dumped on them. Yea! Then about 2:30 AM we get a call. It’s the alarm company telling us that my in-laws alarm has gone off and the police have been dispatched. Jon called them, and he, like the alarm company, couldn’t get an answer on the main phone line. Scary. Mary’s cell phone didn’t get us an answer either. We were about to throw clothes on and make a drive to their house when we got Art’s cell phone to answer. They were back to sleep after a visit from the police. The alarm had gone off because the electricity went off. So it was all right, everyone’s fine, but sleep very disrupted.
I still haven’t gone through all the bits and pieces that need to be sorted for the move to the new office. Frankly, my head feels like mush today. Tour always wipes us out, but I’ve done better than normal. But one moment my energy is fine, the next it’s in the dumper. Last night’s excitement didn’t help the energy situation. Jon and I both feel like crap. But we’re all safe, and that’s what matters. I saw my magnolia tree bend in ways I didn’t think she’d bend. Truly impressive winds last night. Trees are down around town, but our yard was lucky. Knock wood, just smallish limbs and leaves, and frankly not much of that. We got off very lucky. Our prayers and good wishes to all that had more problems.