Crazy storm and no power

Friday night after I got home from work around 10:30 we started to watch a movie when all of the sudden things started pelting the side of our house.  I thought it was hail, but looked out the window and saw branches flying by.  The power went out and we took our cat down to the basement just in case we had a tornado was near.  We immediately called family out of state to check on the weather to see what all was happening.  Then the sirens started going off over the loudspeaker system on base.  We stayed in the basement until we could tell the storm was calming down.  Then we looked outside to see devastation basically.  Entire trees were snapped in half, large branches were broken off trees, and debris was in the road.  Thankfully nothing happened to our house or our cars other than having no power.


Later we heard that the storm had hurricane force wind....at the airport they reported having 90 mph winds.


Here are some pictures I took of some trees 

across the street from our house

down the street, tree knocked into the front porch and took out the column

saw while driving on post

Need to get the tree in the field behind us, entire tree snapped in half.


So the first night without power wasnt too bad, took a somewhat hot shower and slept on top of the covers and was fine.  Only got 5 hours of sleep and then pretty much was up at 7am.  We drove around trying to find food and drove to my work so I could straighten my bangs then we learned that my husbands car was running hot.  He looked under the hood and noticed a white spray all over the engine.  We noticed a hole in one of the hoses for the coolant, so we had to find a autopart store and get some molding tape and more coolant so he could drive his car.  We began noticing how many places were without power.  I mean even a Mcdonalds was closed and thats saying something.  We got home and ryan cooked some burgers on the grill while i cooked ravioli on the stove.....yay for gas stoves!!!!!  Anyways I then went to work until 10pm and when I got home the house was 80 downstairs and 87 upstairs.  I tried to take a shower and it was so ice cold i didnt even do my hair, it was horrible.  I decided to sleep in our unfinished basement to stay cool.


Well the next morning at 4am I woke up feeling nauseous and weak.  I got up and got water and noticed I was shaking.  My husband slept upstairs in our room, but it was 91 and I couldnt do it.  Luckily he woke up at the same time and came to see me.  He wanted me to get out of the basement so we got out and sat in the car with the a/c for 20 minutes then decided we were going to get food so we got the cat and a blanket for me, but while in the house I threw up several times.  He helped me to the car and I sipped water.  We drove around and I looked up possible hotels for us to stay for the next night, because we couldn't bear to stay in our house again.  We booked a place by 5:30am for the night and ryan got food.  Then we went back to the house, when we got home I immediately felt sick and got out of the car to throw up again.  We went inside and wet towels to lay them on our legs and watched my dvd of scrubs on the computer.  I also fell asleep for a little nap.  After the siesta I got ready for work and had work until 7pm.  I felt so gross because my hair was greasy, I was sticky, and wearing clothes from the day before.  So I slept for 4 hours that day.  After work I got Mcdonalds for both of us and went to the hotel.  It was so nice to have a/c and a hot shower.


I slept for almost 11 hours and then woke up and got ready for the day and drove to check on the house....and we had power at 2pm!!!!!!  I went and started the dishwasher and my laundry.  Checked to make sure all the fans were on and closed curtains.  I then went and picked up my husbands glasses and then came back to the hotel to get ready for work.  We are staying at the hotel for one more night mainly because we missed the checkout time.  Tomorrow morning its back to the house, and then cleaning out the refrigerator and freezer.


Total time without power was 63 hours.  During a heat wave with highs in high 90s and low 100s.