We've learned that with Morgan it's best to head in the big pool first rather than try to do the kiddie pool. The water was a tad bit cold but considering it was about 90 degrees out it sure did feel good.
Hey, I can see our house from here.
Watch out Michael Phelps!
After the pool we headed back home just in time for afternoon naps. When we all woke up we decided what better way to finish off a hot summer day then to fire up the grill for some hamburgers. Now, we don't watch the local news much ever since the switch over to digital cable as we only used to watch the news upstairs in our bedroom and we only have cable on the television in the living room. So unfortunately we missed the report about a massive freakish thunderstorm heading right towards us. Luckily we had a sense something was coming.
Morgan and I practiced making our best surprise faces while watching the storm clouds come in and trying not to get hit by lightening.
Then for about 15 minutes we got hammered with rain, wind, and hail. It seemed like just another average storm until the deck table and chairs started flying towards the railing. And then the ladder we had standing up outside fell over. And the grill started moving. And water started coming in underneath our closed sliding glass door. And the power went out. Now I should say that in the four years we have lived in our house the power has never gone out once due to the fact that the power lines are buried underground. So this was new. Morgan and I whipped out the flashlights. Of course it was still light out considering it was only about 6:30 but you get the general idea.
The rain eventually did stop and Pat fired the grill back up to finish making our hamburgers. After a quick dinner we did what any other logical person would do in a situation such as this - grabbed the camera and headed outside to survey the damage. It seems like many of our neighbors had the same idea and we quickly had a block party going on. Of course I'm sure things would have been a bit more jovial if not for the bit of destruction that seemed to only affect our small little neighborhood.
That was not our house, thankfully. We seemed to come away from this relatively unscathed. Our neighbor two doors down however came out of her house only to find a piece of someone's siding wedged into her garage door. And then of course there was quite a bit of tree damage.
Here's our neighbor's house. Amazingly with all the trees knocked down we didn't see a single car hit.
And then of course there was the text message from my sister with a picture of their tree down across their driveway. They also had a fun little neighborhood party as everyone came out with their chainsaws. We too had chainsaws going on... all night long.
After our family walk we decided to postpone bath time considering it would have been a bit difficult to do in the dark and did our best to get ready for bedtime. Of course wouldn't you know Morgan really wanted to stay up and make the most of her first blackout. By this time it was dark dark... good thing we still had about a million wedding candles left over.
At first we tried sitting and rocking in the chair for a bit to calm down...
That worked for about 5 minutes until we decided we'd much rather make silly faces by candlelight instead.
Or maybe that was us yawning which would make sense too considering by that point it was 10pm... two hours past Morgan's bedtime. We finally gave in and ended up having a party in our room complete with flashlights and more silly faces. Amazingly we did manage to fall asleep despite the aforementioned chainsaws and 85 degree heat and luckily the power did come back on at about 3:30am. And wouldn't you know it, today there is absolutely no sign of any damage done except of course for missing siding.
So all in all just a typical Sunday in July complete with a trip to the pool and a tornado. And there you go Mom - that's what's happening in Maryland.
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