Glad to hear everyone is okay! 8)
Our power just came back on about 20 minutes ago. Went off at 10:30 this morning, so 11 hours w/o power. The shingles I saw on the ground this morning, thinking they were mine, actually belonged to the neighbor, the one who also lost a 25' tall Bradford Pear tree due to the winds. We went to Morganfield (aboput 45-50 miles north) for a family reunion and what a trip! Dodged a rather large tree falling as were headed towards my uncle's house, then we went through a small town and there was large limb across the street with a power line dangling from it. My truck fit under it so we kept going. Prior to all of that, we were on a road and had to turn around due to a large tree across the road. That was okay because I was on the wrong road anyway :roll: . Spent some time visiting with aunts, uncles, and cousins I hadn't seen in years, and then headed home around 3:30. The wind had subsided considerably by then. Got home and accessed the damage: The grill was turned-over (even though I had it tied to the porch railing, patio furniture strewn a bit, two sections of fence down, and half the roof on the dog kennel was missing. One of the dogs had his head sticking up looking through the hole. I guess he thought he now had a skylight, lol. Went to Lowes and got some plywood to fix the dog kennel roof, having them do the cut because I had no power to run a saw, returned home, removed the remainder of the old roof, nailed-on the new one, then put the fence sections back up, set the grill upright, then went to grab a burger and some coffee. What a day!
My neighbor went out a bought a $600 generator and ran it for about 2.5 hours....then the power came back on. I wonder if they'll let him return it? Oh, yeah, they've already cancelled school for tomorrow. Oh, the power company told us when we called them this morning that there were about 25k people w/o power.