Speaking Of heart Attacks!!
 

Here in Ohio were I live, we had some pretty strong wings come through today. I was sitting in here reading YT when I heard the kids scream. I took off through the house and they were yellin, the tree just fell on Darlenes house!! (Darlene is our neighbor.) I took off out the door and her truck was there, all I could think was her and Cody were inside and the tree had went through the roof and if she was up in her room laying down, she could be pinned in her bed. I ran as fast as I could to her door (dangerous I know, but still) anyhow, as I was beating on her door trying to get in and screaming, I looked over and saw my 18 year old son coming through the driveway right in the path of the tree if it were to fall the rest of the way off the edge of the house. I started screaming GET BACK, GET BACK, but he kept coming towards me, I got hysterical and finally he listened to me and got back. My God, I was scared to death!! My son isn't replaceable. When I ran to her door, I ran way around the path of the tree had it came the rest of the way off the house, not Bub, he just came running towards me! Good Lord, I swear I could have had a heart attack right then and there!! My hubby called 911 and the fire department came out, the tree is actually a tree that split off into 4 parts, one part is on her roof STILL, the landlord next door owns the tree and he can't get anyone out here till tomorrow. Another part of the tree is leaning towards the other neighbors house and I'm scared it's gonna give way. Can you believe they are all still STAYING in the houses??? NO WAY would I do that!! We offered for them to stay here butt hey said they were gonna just stay at their places and sleep downstairs in their livingrooms:eek: If the winds kick back up here tonight that tree's gonna come off there, it's just hangin on by the edge. It'll take out the garage and our dogs outside kennel, our shed and my turtles pen! I had the kids stay on our back porch and watch that tree while I ran out and grabbed my turtle out of her pen, no way was I leaving her out there to be killed should that tree come down!! Ya know how they show in the movies when someones tryin to unlock something and they're really scared and they keep putting the wrong key in or putting the key in the wrong way over and over again? Well let me tell ya, it's realllly like that!! Daisy has two locks on her outdoor cage cause I didn't want anyone stealing her or a coon or dog getting her, trying to get those unlocked had me being Miss Fumble Fingers let me tell ya!! She's in the house with us now in a rubber maid bin but hey, at least she's safe! Our poor furkids knew there was something going on, all of them were barking and carrying on. Hopefully that tree doesn't fall the rest of the way off the house tonight and everyone stays safe!! Please say a lil prayer for our neighbors if you pray and have time. Thanks a bunch!

ack I just lost a big post I was trying to send!! darn! Well I was saying about 8 or so here we had really heavy winds pick up, the sky went almost black and we got worried! Told the kids to go downstairs and watch some TV. DH and I went back outside to look around. thats when we saw 3 diff swirls in the sky/clouds that looked like they were trying to form rotations!!ACK! Luckilly they passed, but its the winds that were bothering us. Last year around this time our area was hit by some major straightline winds which did some tremendous damage in our area. No power for 2 weeks, trees down everywhere, trees on houses, cars, roads along with electrical lines on everything too!
What time did these winds happen where you live? I'm wondering how close we are to each other?!?! :)

BTW I do hope your settled back down by now! I know those kind of things freak me out and I can't get settled for some time. Thats when the ativan or valium come in handy ;) lol!

Oh good Lord, I have no idea what time it was, I know it was still daylight out. If I had to guess, and considering my hubby was home from work already and we had already done some running, I'd say about 6:00 or so, but don't take my word on it, I was so frantic I didn't even look at a clock, I stood out in the rain waiting to see if that tree was gonna fall and praying if it did, it wouldn't land on any of the firemen. I'm located in Wadsworth, it's Medina County. Have family out in Wayne County and they called and told my hubby that they seen on the news a tornado was spotted, not sure were though. Oh God, last year when those storms came through, a tornado actually touched down where my hubbys sisters step daughter was working at on a farm. She was on 13 years old and got tossed through the air and across the barn. She ended up with a broken arm and bruised ribs and some cuts, but she was really lucky, it could have been SO MUCH worse! It's about time for Ohios wacky weather to get started, it never seems to fail either, school lets out and the weather goes to crap, lol! I'm so glad those swirls in the sky didn't form into a tornado while over you!! Where about are you in Ohio?

I'm pretty settled right now, just can't sleep worrying about that darn tree. I actually just got up and walked to the door and looked out to make sure it was still there and hadn't fallen and took out the garage and stuff. I hope someone is here in the morning to cut it down safely. I know Lil Miss Maggy May sure won't be going out there tomorrow, heck, the sound of saws alone would scare the crap outta her. It's a big tree so it's gonna take a while to cut down and cut up. Not gonna be a fun day trying to take the bigger dogs out to the potty with strangers running all through there.

Oh wow, were only about 30 minutes from each other!! I'm in Wayne county! I go to Medina Hosp every other week for my chronic pain doc, lol! It's a small world huh?!?! we actually live on the Wayne/Ashland county line and bout 5 miles up from Holmes county line ;)

:eek::eek: OMGosh! Please stay safe!

OMG, it is a small world!! That's really neat that we live so close together, we're practically neighbors!! Years back we used to live out in that same county. We lived in a real small town right outside of Shreve (lived in Shreve years back to, lol.) I can't remember the name of the town though, I'd have to ask my hubby. It was an amish community though and just so peaceful and quite. My hubbies brother actually lives out in Ashland County, they recently bought a home there. Last year with those storms, their roof got half ripped off, sure wasn't a lot of fun for them after just gettin moved in and then have those storms hit like they did! How ya liking this heat we're getting? It's HORRID outside through the day, I can't stand it!!

I actually just jumped out of my chair a few minutes ago and took off running outside, I heard a big bang, thought for sure the tree fell, but, it hasn't, it's still laying on the very edge of Darlenes house roof. I don't know what the noise was I heard, the other half hasn't fell on the other house yet, just hope it wasn't yet another tree around here. We're stayin safe though, hubby and all the kids are all in bed sleepin (skin, fur, shell and scale, lol.)

lol! I am from Shreve originally!! My Moms whole family still lives there! Ever heard of Funk?? OR Blachleyville??

You know, this is gonna sound really horrible, but I really stink with names, lol. For some reason, Funk sounds familiar though. I'll have to ask my hubby and see if he remembers the names and help me find out why it sounds familiar to me, lol. I used to work out at Schecks IGA when we lived out there, I was a cashier for about a year. We only lived in Shreve for about 3-4 years but I love the community, it's such a peaceful small town. Do you ever go over to Shreve anymore? Every now and again we still drive to Shreve and go driving through the swamps, I love looking at all the turtles out there, plus hubby likes to throw a line and see what he can catch. I remember years back living out there when we had a HUGE storm, there were lawn chairs and swimming pools flying down through the streets in town, it was bad, really bad.

oh were in Shreve at least once a day sometimes 3 times a day!! My kids go to Shreve elemenatry! I go into Schecks about twice a week too! Yous see they built a dollar general store beside schecks?? Are you referring to the 69 flood? if so my grandpa owned the resteraunt during that time! Funk is out 95 about 13 ,miles but we back road it to go to shreve! We live across from the Funk bottoms, lol!

Ya, the last time we were out in Shreve I seen they had put in the new store, what a change for Shreve hu?! My hubbys brother used to live out there for some years in the house across from the library (across the alley) right on the corner. His name is Terry Reed and he married Heather Bernadine, do you know those two? They have three kids now, Mikayla, Brandon and Aubrey. They're the ones that moved and bought a house out in Ashland county. Our oldest daughter went to school out there at the elementary school years back as well. The real bad storms I'm talking about when we lived out there would have been in 1993 or 1994, Bub was just 4 years old then and hadn't started school yet. Now I remember why "Funk" sounds so familair to me, I'd heard my hubby and ex brother in law talk about funk bottoms a lot, I'll have to ask my hubby about it when he gets home today. Did ya'll get anymore of those storms last night? We did, I had to hurry and shut down the puter and unplug all them cause it got bad. The tree didn't come flying off that roof though thank God, a tree company is actually out there right now cuttin it down, so far so good, no ones gotten hurt. I'm so tired, I was up till after 7 this AM and Maggy decided she wanted up to play for a bit at 9, then again at 10:30, so, I haven't had hardly any sleep at all.

Oh wow! That is scary! Glad everyone is ok!

That was scary just to read your post.
Be safe and I hope they get the rest of that tree down
ASAP. No way would I be staying in either of those houses
until that tree was safe and sound on the ground.
Take care,

That is scary, I feel for you, storms scare me so bad.