Storm

We had a pretty bad storm last night. Straight winds took down a branch at my neighbor's house and then also took down a smaller branch in our yard. This storm also brought water in our basement which we didn't find until it was too late. We have some lovely (note the sarcasm there) window wells that are located at the back of our house in our garden area where the rocks in the window well were built up a little too high and sloped toward the window. So when we got the heavy rain, the rain poured off our roof (gutters had been taken down when we re-sided the house) and pooled up in the garden area and also pooled in the window wells which pooled in our basement. The sad news on this is that we are missing the 4th of July weekend up at the cabin and we also miss seeing Jerad's cousin and family who live in Georgia. We rarely see them so it was really upsetting, but we had to take care of the carpet and get it out of the basement so there was no mold growing down there. Our neighbor's branch.

Our branch...after Jerad had already moved it to the side of the house.