Tornado pictures

The captions are above the pictures. :) The inside pics are coming--they are in the process of moving, and let's face it, it's really kind of awful all over Iowa right now! (and WI, and KS, and NE, and IL, and MN--all over the Midwest...)

This is my favorite--if you look through the doorway, you can see outside! The thing on the ground is the roof--that was peeled off; about 10 feet from where we were. :)In this one, you can see the side of the trailer was ripped up a bit. There were a few broken windows in the trailer, but luckily, they had plastic over them, so it was more contained than the ones from the house!! The electrical line was torn off, too, but it's hard to see. (there should be wires coming from the house... and they're on the ground.) This is facing west. We (Ben and I) were in the bathtub in the NW corner of the house. yea.This is the Oliver shed. The wall that is over by the bins was sling-shot there by my clothes line! That did NOT break!!! YEA!!!!

The corn crib is down. The goats are very happy. :) It's kind of cool, in that it gives the animals shade, but it sucks, since the main wind-blocker is now gone. This was the Shed-on-the-concrete. We'll miss this one. But now we have a nice slab of concrete. I don't think you can see it, but the poles were pulled out of the ground, and the concrete around it was flipped over--one of them onto a window, that didn't break!!

You can see the barn has some extra opening in it as well. The tin on the W side was taken off--and over to our neighbor's house.

We're 0-2 on the trampolines now, and will not be replacing this. :( But the coop is just fine (the building on the left) and the clear spot in the middle, behind the tree?? that was the Oliver shed.

If I had had more sleep in the past week, I would have found you pictures for before/after, but I didn't, and I'm not going to. :) Look at earlier posts, to see how things were! :) Ooo... I could link... maybe later. :) :) :) Oh, we also lost one of the hog huts, but no one took pictures of that... there's really not much to see--just where it was.

The thing is that sitting in the bathtub, I prayed and prayed, that we and the animals would be okay. Before that, while doing dishes, I prayed for the people in the path of the storm, so they would stay calm and do what needed to be done. (I didn't mean US!) Still, prayers answered! Not only were we protected from the worst of it, so were all of our animals. The huts that the ducks/chicks and goats are in are fine. Better than fine--the tree that was broken above it still had enough of a hold on the limbs that it didn't smash in the roof(s). To the east, to the west, destruction, but the huts themselves---just fine--in fact, one window was blown out--OUT, not in. Out. The coop, our house, we are very blessed. And grateful. Very grateful!!!