Well! The art sale was going wonderfully for the first two hours when a biiiiiig black cloud appeared on the horizion and killed it! As Brandy has stated- these things are hit-or-miss. This was a miss and it only got crazier as the evening went on. All hell broke loose. We rushed to our cars with all the products (I was following Adam over a foot bridge) when the rain started. It felt like 500 shower heads all pointed at me. I got totally wet and I couldn't see. People behind me were yelling to get out of the way, but I was carrying a bunch of paintings on a foot bridge in a park and was completely blinded by the rain. Every time I blinked more rain fell directly in my eyes! It was scary because there was a lot of lightning too. Thankfully I had left my aluminum easel by our "booth". Well anyways, to make a long story shorter- I blindly waddled and felt my way to my car- my white skirt got ruined, I could feel the heat off of a very close lightning bolt and of course I had to pee. Luckily all the artwork was ok. BUT when we got home to Niles, we found that there was tree schrapnel all over the streets and when we got to our house there were two trees down on the power line outside our house, with the pole cracked in half and leaning towards our house and two transformers in the driveway. It was 100% insane. This is why I haven't been able to report about the art show since Wednesday! Ugh! That night at 4am there was a man outside our window with a chainsaw chopping up the trees. It's all good now. Check out the pic from the morning after:
On the far right is the tree from across the street, in the middle you can see parts of the second tree and the broken telephone poll... needless to say we were extremely lucky we weren't home because we would have lost one or both of our cars from the transformer thingies that fell off of that poll and landed in the driveway. They are still cleaning up the whole city, and some hillbilly guy came along yesterday and took a bunch of the wood (I imagine he's going to make clocks out of it or something). Life is good.
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posted by amy beth at
9:27 AM
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I'm glad that you, Adam, and the cars weren't hurt!
(maggie again. still can't remember my effing blogger password and apparently the email I had with blogger orignally is one I no longer use. hahaha.)
the weirdest thing was that when we got home and saw the carnage, we were pretty much positive that nothing aws going to work in the house - but it was all 100% okay! even the cable worked - and the phone and electricity worked even though the cables were on the ground outside! - they had to turn us off for a day though - stupid public safety concerns... was fun and exciting I suppose!
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