90 MPH winds= A lot of damage!

This branch missed this car by less than a foot!

Three trees in front of our building went down like dominos

Our friends the Evers. It's their house with the big pine blocking the front of it. (They still don't have power!) Everyone came out to help clean up all of the trees.

So yesterday evening we were sitting outside cleaning up our patio when the tornado sirens sounded, but the weather looked great. Andrew turned on the TV to see what was going on and it said 90 mph winds were coming, to get inside and to stay away from the windows. About 5 minutes later we could see the clouds just rolling towards us pretty quickly. I got out the video camera and started taping when Andrew said we needed to get inside. I called him a chicken and kept taping, he pulled me in, so I went to the back door to get more video. But as soon as I opened the door it started raining so hard and debris was hitting the glass. He yelled at me to get Benson and he grabbed Tanner and we all ran down to the basement. The storm sounded so loud. After a few minutes Andrew went up and said that trees were down. We all came up to see the damage and this is what we saw. There was hail the size of quarters, branches everywhere, I guess even a swing set went through someones window, and our power was out for almost 24 hours. The people across the street still don't have power along with many more people from Omaha and Council Bluffs.

Last night when we didn't have power, we got out candles for some light but I could only find one of our flashlights. So we drove to a Walmart south of us (who still had power) to get a lantern so we would have good light for the kids. I can see now why the church says, "BE PREPARED". It was a zoo in the camping isle. I got the last battery operated lantern, more than half the flashlights were gone, and people were going crazy everywhere. Many people asked me where I had gotten my lantern, which I had to say, "Sorry but it's the last one!"
Once I got the lantern I headed to get batteries that were also cleaned out. Luckily I remembered they keep batteries by the toys and bought the last two packs of D cells.

So a message to all... "BE PREPARED!" This was nothing compared to what will come!