Gone With the Wind

It was way too hot out to spend the day outside, so yesterday afternoon we decided to go see a movie instead. Tyler and I have been waiting for the movie "Hop" to come to the cinema cafe since we first saw the trailer. Tuesdays is $1 day, plus I had a coupon for buy one, get one free admission, so we all got in to see "Hop" for a total price of $2...not too shabby. During the movie, the power went out twice for a very brief periods of time.We didn't think anything of it until we came out and we heard the last boom of thunder and it was raining. However, by the time we got on the road the rain stopped.
Then, we started noticing the damage. Leaves and tree limbs were scattered all over the place. Traffic lights weren't working and roads were shutdown due to larger trees falling. What normally would only take 8 minutes to get home, ended up taking us an hour due to all the detours. When we pulled into the apartment complex it was evident that the storm hit home too. As you can see from the photo, a lamp post was knocked down and large parts of our iron fence was broken or knocked down from the trees. My neighbor said she witnessed the whole thing. She said it started out with some dark clouds rolling in and the next thing she knew, there was nothing but green outside due to the high winds and leaves flying everywhere. We were out of power from 4pm until the next day at 9am. We did get one more storm over night, but it wasn't as severe. So glad that we missed the big storm by being at the theater.