The Storm That Changed Village Green

Yesterday at about 4:45pm we heard the tornado warnings going off. The kids were still out playing and we all just kind of looked at each other like what storm. Then someone came out and said that we were going to get hit by a storm with 90 mph winds and that we should get in the house. so we all got the kids round up and the bikes put away and just as we were done Jaden and I were looking out the window watching the clouds roll in. I was trying to tell Jason to come and look and he was like whatever, once you've seen a storm there all the same. Not this one!!!! This, by far, was one of the worst storms we have been through here in Omaha. The power went out about 5:07pm and then it all came down all once. There was hail, wind, rain, things were flying all over the place and we couldn't even see out the windows. Jason and I hurried and got some stuff to take in the basement because we thought for sure that something was going to happen. But then of course, we went back up stairs and started to look out our front window to see what was going on. That's when the wind went crazy and blew down all the trees that were in our front drive. After that we went back into the basement, waited a few minutes and then we went back up to see if it stopped. Then it was just raining really hard. still no power! so after about 30 minutes I went out to see what happened, WOW, there were so many trees down and everyone started coming out to see what went on. Then everyone started to clean up because the road was blocked and it wasn't safe. We were just about to start dinner when this all happened so since the power was out we went to go see what was open to eat. I needed food so bad. Then after that we went to see if the movies were playing and they were open, so we went to see the Hulk at 10pm. Jaden thought that it was a great movie. So all in all it was a very fun filled night. When we got home there was still no power and it was time for bed.
Here are the pictures that I took off the after math of the storm! This was some crazy stuff for good old V.G. But everyone pulled together to help clean up and made sure that no one was hurt. Which there was nothing to report! Just a lot of trees that will be gone forever.


Jaden , Hunter and Tanner enjoyed watching the
the guys chop up the big tree that fell at the park!

The missionaries were at someones house for dinner

and they even came out and helped with the clean up!

The back parking lot drain was full of leaves and

sticks from the trees, so Jason got out there and cleaned

up the drains!

Jaden thought that it was pretty cool to be

out in the rain after it all happened.

It was really a big mess. The kids thought it

was fun to watch Jason clean up and also to play in

water!

Just some more trees at the play

ground that were down! Lots of clean

up to do!

This was a big tree that almost took out someones

town home. It only took out some wires. Nothing

else but lots of clean up!

Here are the trees that fell down in the street in

front of my town home. We had three really nice trees

That are now no more.

This is the tree that was just outside my front

door. Most of it went into the street but the trunk

and a few big branches are still there. but you can see

where it broke off.

We are so blessed that no one was hurt and that there wasn't to much damage to the houses. We just got our power back on at about 1:50pm today. Village Green is really a great place to live, so many people were out helping clean up and they all worked together to get it done fast. We will miss it when we move on to our next little adventure in life. Still no baby, I am sure that we will be seeing her when she is due. But right now she's happy were she is for about week and three days. We will post when she is here in our arms.