Wacky, wild June weather!

Once again we have had some wild, wacky weather. We had 90 MPH straight line winds sweep through this afternoon. Currently 125,000 people are without power. Two people died when a tree fell on their car and a third person (same car) had both her legs broken. The rain and wind were just unbelievable. We had just planted trees in our backyard. Two of them were pretty big and the rest were just smaller trees. When the winds came through, the trees were swept over until they were almost flat with the ground. We watched as the tree was pulled up by the roots! I have never actually seen it happen! The winds were just wild, sirens were going off, rain was pounding...I thought we were going to be swept away. Several houses lost their roofs, trees are down everywhere, the Arts Festival was demolished, the Quest center where they are holding Olympic swim trials had damage. We were really lucky that it was just our tree. We have power (underground cables) and were able to get the tree back into the ground. We will call the nursery tomorrow to see what they say. It is bent now but we are hoping it will go back to being straight. I hope July brings an end to all of this weather drama...