HURRICANE WINDS

We were warned that we would have some pretty strong EAST WINDS with gust about 60 MPH at times...well what we got was 90-102 MPH WINDS in DAVIS COUNTY!! It was SO SCARY driving to work. I had both hands on the wheel and felt my car shaking and thought it was going to flip over. Once I got to work Cyndi and Lesa pulled up and they were totally FREAKED OUT! Trees were down, the new building behind ours was fallen over, and debris was flying everywhere! We had a difficult time opening the doors to get in. Lesa's husband, Tom had to get out of his truck to help us open the door so we could all get  in. We weren't very happy that our boss made us come in. The winds were INSANE! We have to be to work at 7:00 am. The rest of the building comes in at 8:00. Everyone kept calling saying they weren't coming in. The POWER kept going on and off and we were told to not turn on our computers. So why did we have to stay? We can't help the public without computers and who would be stupid enough to come in on a day like this???  Well, many of our co-workers had trees topple on top of their homes, windows were blown out, and semi's were tipped over and traffic lights were all over the ground and people were being blown over. It was CRAZY! I have NEVER been in weather quite like this. I called my neighbor and he told me that my PINE TREE in my front yard FELL OVER and I was lucky it didn't land on my house. My FENCE in the backyard BLEW OVER, my SIDING on the side of my house FLEW AWAY, my BARBECUE  GRILL got  thrown across my deck and it ripped off the FRONT DOORS and my LIGHTS ON MY GARAGE got tore apart! My front window on Zach's bedroom window was broken and flew apart. I was stressed about my tree and how I was going to clean it all up because Zach was is Vegas but by the time I got home my WONDERFUL NEIGHBORS had the tree chopped up and hauled away! Our neighborhood looked like a WAR ZONE! It was so SAD to see all of the damage. By 7:00 pm the men in my ward had cut up and hauled every tree out and had cleaned up the neighborhood. I am SO BLESSED to have such wonderful neighbors, and I feel so BLESSED that my tree didn't land on my house! My neighbor took pics of my tree but I haven't received them yet. I will post them when I get them but here are some other pics of this WINDY DAY!

 Seriously hanging on and totally getting blown over. Not even kidding. It was so crazy!

                            Everyone's hair looked like this after being outside for just a few seconds!

 Where my tree once stood! The roots were wrapped around sprinklers! :(  Poor tree...I already miss it!

                                                       One portion of my broken fence!

 This was taken from my car window. It's my neighbors house. He lost a lot of trees! This is what all of Kaysville looked like. It was horrible!

Another view of my neighbors side yard!

 Remember how we set up for 4th of July Parade under one of these trees? Hmmm...how am I going to tell you where the blankets will be set up now? 19 trees down on this one stretch sidewalk!

                                       Again, trees that we sat under for the Kaysville Parade
The golf course by our house lost over 400 trees, Oakridge Country Clublost over 200 and Valley ViewGolf Course lost over 200 trees.