The Midwest storms ....

As you may have heard on the news, the Midwest has experienced several bad storms over the past week. Last Sunday we had a power outage in our area. The storm did a lot of damage and left over 250,000 residents in and around Detroit without power. Some people lost power for up to 4 or 5 days. Fortunately, we were only out for about 24 hours. The reason our power was out was due to an old pine tree ... the tree was struck by lightning and fell into our power lines. Check out the pics below:

That's our neighbor Kay in the bottom right corner :-)

The tree had such deep roots it lifted up the ground!