Winds blowing Friday night, east to west.
The power went out around midnight, and we were awakened by gusts all through the night. I woke up at about 5:40am on Saturday to eerie silence. 
After checking the battery-powered tv, I confirmed that the eye was right over us.
Marian had been wanting to experience the eye, so I was glad that she woke up for a bit so I could show her.
By 7am, the eye had passed and we were in the storm again. Now the winds come west to east.
Here's a little clip from 8:30am. The worst was passed, but we still had several more hours to go.
Our street had very little damage, mostly broken branches. We drove around our neighborhood on Monday, and saw lots of fences down, lots of uprooted trees, and trees leaning or sitting on houses, but not crashed through them.
The power lines are the only thing holding this tree up.
The only serious damage that we could see at the preschool was at the playground.
"Ram Tough" I first saw the truck with the tree still on it, and it is the tree that is cut up into logs behind the truck. There's another tree down in the background. 
The roof over the pumps got blown down and is on the other side of the lot.
We lost the contents of the fridge on Monday. Lost the freezer on Tuesday. We were worried about ice by Monday. The 5-day cooler was doing well, but I bought the ice on Thursday, so we needed to replenish. Tried to get to a POD (FEMA point of distribution) on Monday, but decided we would waste our gas trying to inch along in the line. Thomas went to another POD early on Tuesday, and got in the walk-up line. It took 4 hours, but he got 2 small bags of ice, so we could keep our milk and cheese for a few more days. I ran to the grocery store (on a generator) and they happened to have a few pallets of ice while I was there, so we had 2 more small bags!
We were breathing easier by mid-week when many of the nearby grocery stores and restaurants had regained power or were running on generators. Plus, a cool front came in on Monday and kept the temperature nice for several days and nights (very unusual for one to last so long in Sept). By Friday, the cool front had run its course and it was starting to get hot again. It was a fairly yucky weekend with high temps and high humidity which is just really hard to sleep in. We all did the Happy Dance when the lights came back on Monday evening!
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Thanks for showing these pics, even though we came for a visit, the damage was already almost gone.
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