It began as a beautiful day, sunny, if not a bit hot, a good one for that early morning
quick weeding. Soon, the clouds came in, nothing to be concerned about, it would seem, and then around 2 in the afternoon, thunder, lightning, wind, torrential rain, street floods, and suddenly a crash. It was all over in less than half an hour.
Remember my gorgeous peonies? They're under this huge branch, one of two that broke loose from an old maple in our backyard, each in excess of thirty feet that fell from the back of the house to the front, grazing the roof. Another tree in the back of the yard toppled onto a neighbor's house and was caught on an open jalousie window. Across the street, another huge maple, uprooted, is now "resting" on the side of our neighbors' house. Microbursts, they said, and some other neighbors lost power.
