Went to bed last night with a great deal of heat lighting in the skies over Elgin. Wendy woke me around midnight to tell me that we had lost a big tree in the back yard. I was not totally awake and I vaguely remember grumbling something to the effect that I would take care of it in the morning and in a snap of a tree trunk returned to a hard sleep. Sleeping on my left side, my good ear buried into a pillow, I hear little of anything along with the air conditioning running and all the windows in the house closed I'm afraid the house could have been swept away and I would have slept through it. As the pictures show we did indeed have some tree damage. About 15 hours with no electricity, neighbor is still without and the bad news is that it may be late tomorrow, 7/19, before it is restored. Thankfully there was no damage too any houses in the area. Only trees and power lines downed.
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