Blowing in the wind

This morning almost half of our back fence blew over during yet another storm. We heard a huge noise, thought it was the shed, then looked out to see the fence down and a good view into the neighbors’ yard. Our neighbor was on top of things, called insurance and a fence company for quotes quite early. Because of his quick work, we will have the fence repaired on Wednesday. This is the first storm damage we’ve had in the thirteen years we’ve lived here so I suppose we’ve had a good run and it was just our turn.

The storm has continued throughout the day and into the night. We’ve had lots of rain, hail, gale force winds and more wind along with thunder and lightning for brief periods. I made the mistake of opening the front door when the last hail was falling, only to get soaked by rain and hail blowing into the house. At the moment, the rain seems to have stopped but there are still periods of strong winds and it’s quite cold.