Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - When I got up before 5 a.m., I heard them say that there was severe weather coming from the northwest.  When I looked at the map, I knew we were in for it!!  I took this:

at 5:51 a.m. Then, I ran out to the end of the driveway to get my papers.  It was so dark and scary but having soggy newspapers would be much worse.  The videos I took don't even begin to capture the intensity of this storm.  It blew over all the plants and the bench that was on the deck.  I thought the closed umbrella was going to go flying a few times.  There's tons of leaves in the pool and lots of branches and leaves and stuff in the yard.  Yikes!!  later, djb