I’m not sure they are calling it a tornado yet, but everything I’ve seen sure looks like one ran through town last night.

Around 4 in the morning, I woke up to the roar of a sustained wind. I swear it lasted for a minute. I hopped up out of bed and scouted around the inside of the house to make sure everyone was ok and everything was in its place. Then I went back to bed.

In the morning, I noticed that my side yard had a bunch of branches and other debris from the storm. There were also limbs in the main road. As I made my way to work, I realized that the rest of the town looked like it hadn’t been touched by the storm at all. It seemed to be localized around our house. I called my Mom and she heard the wind as well and lost power.

Then I got a call from Jen that a tree had hit part of the house we use as our church. Our church is less than 1/2 mile from my house. When I got there, it looked like a bomb had gone off. Trees had fallen to the left and the right of the house, but only one top of a pine tree fell and damaged the carport at the back of the house.

The cool thing is that most of the trees that were blown down were trees we wanted to get rid of anyway

Our local news had some shots of damage further away from our house, so I pulled up Google Earth and plotted the path of whatever hit us last night:

We are very thankful that no damage was done to our house and that the damage at the church is minimal. Also, it doesn’t appear that anyone was hurt. That’s always good.