Tornado 2009

Yesterday, June 12, 2009 the Mid-South was hit by some horrible storms. Although I have not seen the news or the weather I have heard that several tornadoes hit Olive Branch. They have been said to be about F2 tornadoes. The storm hit so quickly that we had no clue it was in our area. We knew that we were going to have some bad weather, but we thought we had about 10 minutes. Joel and I went outside and it started to sprinkle. By the time we got in the house it was pouring. I went to the back window and the wind picked up and our tree was basically on the ground and Belle's heavy plastic playhouse was picked up the wind and thrown. I yelled for Joel and we grabbed the kids and ran to the bathtub. We had small damage to our property. A portion of our fence was blown down and thrown into our neighbors yard. We are missing some shingles, but overall we were very lucky! Our street had several trees and fences ruined. We were out of power for 26 hours. Oh and if you scroll down to my next post you will see that Josh and Belle had their tonsils removed just the day before the storm. It was a long 26 hours. We were a little worried about Josh's fever spiking too high. He hit 101.3. The hot house did not help the situation. Luckily we had a generator and the kids were able to watch TV and eat ice cream. We hooked up our old window air unit, but even with that it was over 80 in the house. These are some picks from around O.B.

In a subdivision not too far from ours.
Turning onto the main road near our house. Olive Branch was completely dark Friday night and it was very spooky! When we rode around today we were able to basically track the path of 2 of the tornadoes.

This picture does not do a great job of showing the crazy mess on this street. This was the area that was hit the worst. This is right next to our middle school. The street and houses were covered with trees.

This is our neighbors tree that she lost. Joel was working on pulling it out of the ground with his truck. You can see the shingle damage on another neighbors house.

The sky was such an odd shade of orange shortly after the storm. We saw a beautiful double rainbow above our house. We are so thankful to God that we were safe and that no one was seriously injured. I cant even imagine going through a F3-F4 or F5 storm.