Jaw Dropping no warning wind damage at my house.. pics inc
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:33 pm
This morning ranked up in 2nd place for most scared I've ever been in a storm. We had storms a couple weeks ago that were pretty bad because they were long and pretty fierce. These were worse because the damage was indeed pretty jaw dropping even though the storm was fairly quick. (Only wish I had managed to grab pictures of the neighbors faces as they came out of thier houses)
Hubby came home from work shortly before 5am. Mentioned there was a storm coming but maybe it would miss us. I jump on nws radar really quick. Little quick line of storms with no severe warning. Move 3 year old to our bed as she always wakes up scared. 7 year old booked in there first thunder we could hear. They both fell right back to sleep since their dad was with them.
About 5 minutes into the storm I call the hubby out of bed. The wind was seriously concerning me as the huge trees in our back yard were really moving and the lightening (purple lightening? anyone explain) was so bad it actually hurt the eyes. We stand staring for a while in amazement when suddenly a sheet of white hail hit. It wasn't huge hail but it was so thick we couldn't see more then two inches out the windows. We noticed how fast the windows actually frosted up... all of them... When there was a huge crashed that sounded like our kitchen window had shattered in at the same time the lights went out!
No joke it scared the heckola out of all of us. 14 year old daughter comes tearing out of her room screaming.. me and the hubby snatched the other 2 kids out of our bed and throw them all over by our crawl space (mind you this is in the dark!) as we could hear the storm roaring and trees crashing outside. I hear the husband stumbling around in the kitchen and I was worried he was going to cut he's feet on what we thought was broken glass but he call back that somehow the window didn't break. It's one of those double paned windows you can pull down to clean and it somehow the wind had blown in the window (maybe someone upstairs wanted us to clean it? LOL ). The crashing was it hitting the faucet and knocking over everything on the back of the sink (soaps and stuff).
The storm was easing up a tad but we were concerned looking out the patio door because the sky was like a broiling cauldrin all spinning around with lots of scut. Then we looked out at the front of the house.... and were shocked... trees down everywhere. You could barely see the road. I threw on jeans and ran over to the elderly couple next door even though the lightening was still bad as their tree was down in front of the house (they were ok). One by one people everyone came out of their houses and we all just gaped in disbelief. our block looked like a war zone. Tree's on cars... huge trees everywhere with their roots out of the ground. Tree fell on the power lines behind my house and onto our shed (we later learned it was the cause of why our block went without power for 13 hours) but somehow none of the trees landed directly on any house. Caught gutters and demolished cars but not completely through a roof that we can see. Though I heard a few miles due north of us there was a house that lost it's roof.
NWS Storm reports: We live 1 block due south of this first storm report intersection
1020 UNK NEW LENOX WILL IL 4152 8798 FROM INTERSECTION OF FRANCIS RD AND CEDAR RD AND AREAS WEST OF THERE, MULTIPLE TREES DOWN. SOME TREES ACROSS FRANCIS RD. (LOT)
1020 75 NEW LENOX WILL IL 4152 8798 (LOT)
Pictures will be up shortly
Hubby came home from work shortly before 5am. Mentioned there was a storm coming but maybe it would miss us. I jump on nws radar really quick. Little quick line of storms with no severe warning. Move 3 year old to our bed as she always wakes up scared. 7 year old booked in there first thunder we could hear. They both fell right back to sleep since their dad was with them.
About 5 minutes into the storm I call the hubby out of bed. The wind was seriously concerning me as the huge trees in our back yard were really moving and the lightening (purple lightening? anyone explain) was so bad it actually hurt the eyes. We stand staring for a while in amazement when suddenly a sheet of white hail hit. It wasn't huge hail but it was so thick we couldn't see more then two inches out the windows. We noticed how fast the windows actually frosted up... all of them... When there was a huge crashed that sounded like our kitchen window had shattered in at the same time the lights went out!
No joke it scared the heckola out of all of us. 14 year old daughter comes tearing out of her room screaming.. me and the hubby snatched the other 2 kids out of our bed and throw them all over by our crawl space (mind you this is in the dark!) as we could hear the storm roaring and trees crashing outside. I hear the husband stumbling around in the kitchen and I was worried he was going to cut he's feet on what we thought was broken glass but he call back that somehow the window didn't break. It's one of those double paned windows you can pull down to clean and it somehow the wind had blown in the window (maybe someone upstairs wanted us to clean it? LOL ). The crashing was it hitting the faucet and knocking over everything on the back of the sink (soaps and stuff).
The storm was easing up a tad but we were concerned looking out the patio door because the sky was like a broiling cauldrin all spinning around with lots of scut. Then we looked out at the front of the house.... and were shocked... trees down everywhere. You could barely see the road. I threw on jeans and ran over to the elderly couple next door even though the lightening was still bad as their tree was down in front of the house (they were ok). One by one people everyone came out of their houses and we all just gaped in disbelief. our block looked like a war zone. Tree's on cars... huge trees everywhere with their roots out of the ground. Tree fell on the power lines behind my house and onto our shed (we later learned it was the cause of why our block went without power for 13 hours) but somehow none of the trees landed directly on any house. Caught gutters and demolished cars but not completely through a roof that we can see. Though I heard a few miles due north of us there was a house that lost it's roof.
NWS Storm reports: We live 1 block due south of this first storm report intersection
1020 UNK NEW LENOX WILL IL 4152 8798 FROM INTERSECTION OF FRANCIS RD AND CEDAR RD AND AREAS WEST OF THERE, MULTIPLE TREES DOWN. SOME TREES ACROSS FRANCIS RD. (LOT)
1020 75 NEW LENOX WILL IL 4152 8798 (LOT)
Pictures will be up shortly
Will see if any neighbors have photos from before cleanup began as these do absolutely no justice to the what we saw immediately after the storm.
