Craziness!

So I know this is not news for all you Ohioans but I have to explain to my other readers what us here in columbus have been dealing with this week.
Sunday afternoon we had a strong wind alert. Apparently we were getting the remnants of Hurricane Ike. Nobody was prepared for what was about to hit us! Winds up to 75 miles per hour. Trees were taken out everywhere! If a tree did not break in your yard you at least had branches everywhere. Our power went out at about 4:00 p:m on sunday, along with 2 million other ohioans (not exagerating).....Anyway long story short is we got our power back after 32 hours without power. And we were definately one of the lucky ones. I think we were some of the first people to get it back. There are still so many people without power and it has been 4 days now. These are some power lines right in front of our friends the Buskens home. We are so happy they didnt snap all the way in half and that they still have a house!Luckily we only had 2 small trees at our house go down. They will make for good fire wood this winter =)The kids had a fun time helping us clean up all the mess after the storm.Reading in the candlight before bed =)We have this fun fire pit on our deck so that was fun entertainment the 2 nights we didnt have power.
I am SOOOO thankful no trees fell on our house and Yay for Electricity!! =)