ICE STORM

I'm sure most of you have heard about our massive ice storm in Oklahoma since it's been on all the national news.

I thought I'd share a few pictures with you.

This is the only damage we had in the front yard. This pine tree literally snapped in half.

This is the house to our south.

This shows the two houses across the street from us. All three of these homes suffered much worse damage than we did. The house to the left literally had the drive way covered with branches and tree trunks but had already been cleared before I took the picture.

The next pictures are of our back yard.

The large green tree you see was also literally snapped in half. What this picture shows is the top half draped over the bottom half.

We have a Red Leaf Maple tree and a Tulip tree, that are our favorites, that suffered no damage. We are so grateful for that.

This shows the tree to the right with the upper portion and a lower section broken off.

The tree next to it shows various branches stripped off.

The picture right behind the 5th wheel shows the tree in our neighbors yard which was literally mangled.

Tulsa was hit really hard and there are 252,000 homes without power. Our little town of Coweta faired much better. We only lost power yesterday from 3 pm to 10:30 pm last night. We had already gone to bed and loaded the blankets on top of us.

The following pictures show us trying to stay warm and occupying ourselves.

We were in total darkness except for these two oil lanterns, one small flashlight, and some candles.

This shows David talking on his cell phone.

This is yours truly with about 3 layers of clothing on!!! Sitting in the very dimly lit room. I read some chapters out loud by flashlight to Mickey from "Glorious Appearing" by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Here is my Mickey trying to stay warm. I think he looks cute :o)

Here is David reading from "The Complete Essays of Mark Twain" by the light of the two oil lanterns.

Actually it was sort of fun, for the few hours we had to put up with it.

Our youngest son and two grandchildren ended up at our oldest daughters and husbands for the night. Our son-in-love had managed to buy a generator so they were able to have one small light, a small space heater and an electric blanket.

Our second daughter and oldest granddaughter and their room mates ended up all sleeping in their den near the fireplace. Jacque says her beautiful trees that she loved about the house she just bought are totally demolished.

Yesterday neither Mickey or David went to work, but today both have done so.

Marc also went to work and brought Oksana & Aric out here with me. They will probably be one of the ones without power for up to a week, since only his neighbor and his house lost power from broken power lines when the trees snapped. They will be spending the entire time here with us. It's fun having them.

Well, Oksana wants to get on the computer so I need to get off. A big thank you to Myrna from Cherish the Word who dropped me a note this morning to check on us. I really appreciated that!!

This is a show of the back yard early yesterday morning before the trees began splitting and falling.

This is a picture I took out our bedroom window yesterday morning showing the ice laden branches. Fortunately the tree in the front and the Red Japanese Maple near our bedroom window were not harmed.