Stormy Night

July 19, 2006 - What a day!! This afternoon Daddy went to help Mr. Greg put down a floor in Abbi's bedroom. The Cash family recently moved into a new house and is in the process of building a room for Abbi. They are laying laminate wood flooring and since we recently put that in our kitchen Mr. Greg asked Daddy to help. We hope that was a good idea.
Ms. Tammi was going to pick Mommy and me up from our house so we all could have dinner together. In case I haven't mentioned it, we only have one car right now. That is whole other story. So the plan was going to work great, except we didn't count on Mother Nature. At about the time Ms. Tammi came to get us there was a major storm. We ended up driving through a lot of it. On the way to our house a down power line wire hit Ms. Tammi's van. Luckily it didn't shock her. We went through a lot of rain and wind. Several stoplights were out. We were almost to Cash's house. We turned onto their street and a big tree limb blocked the road. Luckily there was another way to get to the house. We pulled in the driveway and Daddy, Mr. Greg, Abbi, Hope and Noah were waiting in the entry way for us. Daddy came to get me out of the van while Mommy and Ms. Tammi waded through the water toward the house. The power was out everywhere. We ate our dinner by candlelight.
It was very hot so after dinner we went down into the basement while Daddy and Mr. Greg kept working on the floor. (Don't ask me why they worked in the dark.). We left late that night and wondered what we would find when we got home. The stoplights were still out and several trees were down. Everything at our house was fine except we didn't have power either. We slept in the basement where it was cooler. We got our power back in the middle of the night. The Cash family didn't get their power until Saturday and several other people are still without power. (Note: This had been labeled the worst storm ever in the number of power outages. Another major storm hit on Friday. To see pictures of the storm in the St. Louis Metro Area you can go to www.kmov.com, www.ksdk.com).