One hour and many innocent trees later....

[evilhippo]

While I was sitting here, rambling about typing while it was storming and my mom and sister were watching the Ninth Gate, we completely missed all the severe storm warnings. When I stopped writing, the wind was so bad that all the trees were falling apart, and I got sent outside to roll up all the car windows. I ran through the driveway and almost fell on a bunch of really wet leaves. I came back inside, drenched, and heard a big CRACK, and then several other big cracks. And a thump. And lots of wind. The storm itself didn't last very long, but it shredded all kinds of trees around here and knocked my mom's poor rubber plant off the front porch (but it's made of rubber, it'll survive). For awhile everyone was turning around in our driveway, and we couldn't figure out why. It turns out the our neighbours got slammed. All the trees in their yard lost about half of their branches, and the entire top of the big maple in their front yard fell right across the road. They used all their tow trucks to drag it off the road, though. It's rather funny that they're the ones that happen to have a tow truck company, hmm? A lot of trees all over the place here are all over the road, and it looks like we had a mini tornado, that obviously came while I was outside rolling up all the windows. Lovely. Hooray for risking the life of your daughter to save the interior of your car!

And now it sounds like it's going to storm again. Stupid cold front! Go harass someone else! I wanted to go swimming today.