six - "the wind"

Sunday began beautifully, with gusty winds and cool air. Matthew and I were enjoying the breezy weather...that is...until the wind turned on us all here in the Louisville area. The news anchors keep calling them "Sunday's storms" or "the storms"...but the truth is it never really stormed at all and it barely even rained. It was cool out, cloudy, and wind ripped through our area - can that be defined as a storm? A wind storm, I guess? ...moving on....
Matthew and I were EXTREMELY well taken care of through all the damaging winds. One of our trees fell squarely between our home and our neighbor's - with no harm done to either house. Our neighbors have been very, very kind. Sunday evening, once the winds had tapered off, our usually quiet neighborhood came to life with some of the older guys out helping each other cut up fallen trees and haul limbs to the curb. Our friend and neighbor, Larry, came along with his son & they helped us clear our yard of our own fallen tree. Our electricity was out from Sunday until Monday afternoon. It was kind of nice, actually. We sat outside together & had a couple beers that evening. We played dice games by candlelight & we decided that we could definitely have survived longer than a night like that. We also found that our water is heated by gas...meaning we had hot showers :) even with no power on.
The next day, Larry came with equipment and helped Matt put some shingles back in place on our roof. He is a good neighbor...we are blessed to have him across the street. God is truly taking care of us...we had almost no damage unlike many others & we had help right away to clean up.

The schools are all still out of service here....it could be next week before they get all the trees cleared. FC doesn't have power yet anyway. Matt has been working on the house and grading all week. My job was only delayed for 1 day. Humana was closed half the day Monday and so the person I job coach did not go in. Today, however, we were back on track! Now, if only all the traffic lights were working! ....it takes forever to get places right now.

Hope you are all doing well where you are!
Love, Jessie