Storm Damage from last night

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TStodden
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Storm Damage from last night

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Last night was pretty bad for me... Here's the rough rundown on things...

1) ~7 inches of rain (according to the rain gauge... not betting on accuracy, could be closer to 5 inches)
2) Had 3 micro-outages (~1 second)
3) A tree near the house fell over, likely from the high winds -- Nobody & nothing got damaged (besides some branches on nearby trees).

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Here's a main pic (50% scaled to get under size limits) that was taken this morning, as the tree fell down around 11:00 PM CDT (power went out for a second & then a loud "thud"). You can click it to see the other pictures (full size) of the damage (No guest password required).

As the tree is technically the city's (as it's within the parking), they're cleaning it up. The street's opened back up, but the trunk will take a few days to clear.

Update: Looks like the local news covered the storm damage a bit as well. -- http://www.ktiv.com/story/14979836/thun ... -marcus-ia (I have no reservations against exposing my physical location, that's just an occupational hazard).
~TStodden (Going Text based as Photobucket is being a jerk)
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Re: Storm Damage from last night

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Scary. I am slowly getting as many trees away from my house as possible. I hate thunderstorms, but I get extra jumpy ever since we had the tornado.
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Re: Storm Damage from last night

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Yikes... where the heck do you live again? I didn't know anyplace in the country had particularly strong storms last night.
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