2 full days without power

Sunday, September 14Th we experienced our first severe wind storm.  It was generated from the hurricane devastating Texas.  I was making dinner around 3pm when the wind started to pick up.  I went out side and took this video of trees behind our condo.  I didn't even get the worst of the storm.  Sorry it is a little long but it picks up at the end.    The weirdest thing about the wind was that it was hot wind.  Normally wind is cool but it felt hotter then the stagnant air.

At about 4 p.m. we lost our electricity, our neighbors lost there storm door, and our trees stared to loose branches.  

The next day still without electricity we decided to go for a walk with the kids.  I soon became very apparent how lucky we were.  Just down the street from us power polls were snapped in half, trees were up rooted, and signs were managed.  There was one house with a huge tree, roots and all, on top of there car. 

This branch fell from a huge tree next to our condo.

Down the street we see why we don't have electricity.  These power polls snapped in half and hanging from the wires.  These homes were evacuated while they worked on replacing the damaged polls and lines.  Meanwhile our street was closed.

Theses were just a couple of the pictures we took of fallen trees.  It was really sad to see some of the huge ancient trees fall.  Some of these trees had been here for hundreds of years. 

So what did we do while the the power was out?