Up at 6 a.m. to get ready to go to water aerobics. I wondered if I would be able to go this morning, since storms were predicted for today, but the weather seemed fine by 7:15, so I headed to the college.
In the dressing room, the talk was about the storms yesterday. Our leader, who is a retired teacher, was saddened that one of the people killed in a town east of us was a teacher who had retired on Wednesday, and was to attend her retirement party at the school yesterday. She went to her van to go to the school, but before she could leave her driveway, the storm cropped up. She was waiting until the rain abated, when a tree in her yard fell on her car, killing her.
Another woman commented that the property of one of our members was damaged when trees were uprooted in the yard, and the wind blew a barn roof askew. Another tree damaged a pasture fence, so she and her husband had to mend that fence right away to keep the cattle in.
But stranger than that, trees were down in the yard of their neighbor's property...trees that were not there before. Apparently, the high winds had uprooted the trees somewhere else and tossed them onto the neighbor's yard.
Yet another woman said trees were blown down all along the highway from our town to one about twenty minutes away. Some had blown onto the highway, obstructing traffic for a while.
Back home after aerobics, I relaxed with cups of coffee, then headed upstairs to get ready for the day. Then I did a few things around the house, including laundry. In the meantime, Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, and she went to her jigsaw puzzle.
After lunch, I didn't accomplish much beyond reading newspapers, and playing on my tablet. I really wanted to go shopping, but the weather was looking pretty dismal.
Mid-afternoon, the skies became night time dark, so I turned on the TV to check the weather. Our county was in the path of severe storms again. Before too long, though, the power went out. So we turned on the radio to stay up with weather reports.
Soon, we got a call warning us of funnel cloud sightings near our home. We kept a lookout, but the sky had lightened, and things looked okay. Around 3 p.m., there was a report on the radio of a small twister touchdown not far from us.
The power company trucks arrived (about nine of them) and surveyed power lines across the road. I'm not sure if they did anything there, but not long afterward, they headed down the road. The power remained out for some time afterward, so by suppertime, we decided to go to the fish house for dinner.
Thankfully, the power was on at the restaurant. After supper, we took a tour around town to see where the tornado had touched down. There was damage at two businesses not far from our house. We were lucky that the twister didn't get closer.
Tonight, we had planned to attend a reception at the art gallery, and other events downtown, but were in no mood for it after the storm, so we stayed home and watched a movie on TV that we borrowed from the library.
This was a very old, black and white film, dated 1939. Hubbie had seen this in his youth, and wanted me to see it. It's called, "The Good Earth." It is very good. It is about a Chinese farming couple who struggle to survive. Based on a book by Pearl S. Buck.
After the movie, I went to Mother's house to put drops in her eyes. Then, after a one-hour show on TV, and the news, we were ready to head to bed.
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