Wind Storm

Chris (my sister) and Brad (her boyfriend) stopped in for a quick over night visit on Thursday. They were on their way to Edmonton to support Brad's daughter as she was competing in a body building competition. (She ended up taking first place for Canada.) We had finished dinner and were playing pool down stairs when a nasty thunderstorm rolled over head. I looked out the window and said, "Look at how fast those clouds are moving." When suddenly the trees in the backyard bent right over, the stack of three chairs, the cooler and a shovel went flying off to the neighbours empty lot. That was the end of the pool game for a while. We went up to the living room and watched out the front window while the cloud circled menacingly. The rain was coming down in sheets while the thunder and lightening boomed overhead. Our neighbour said driving home in it was insane. They were on the highway, doing sixty with the wipers on full and could hardly see the road. Chris was ready to check out the crawl space and being a good hostess I would have joined her. A lightning strike.

We watched as some of the wind gusts tore the flashing off our neighbour's house. It was quite a show. We all kept waiting for that circle of swirling clouds to start spiralling down. It's hard to see but the flashing is missing on the peak of the shorter grey house on the left.

One of the thunder clouds a little later.

Most of these pictures were actually taken a while later after the bulk of the storm had moved off.