On Friday, we had a tornado. You can see my photos of the damage here. The good news is that no one was killed. The bad news is that because no one was killed, our little county has to pay for all the repair & cleanup on its own. The number of crews & trucks that have converged on the Grandview community is truly amazing. Early Saturday morning, the first (local) responders were estimating several weeks without power. It was back on Saturday night. Trucks loaded with utility poles or huge spools of electric cable came rolling down Grandview Rd., followed by specialized vehicles which dug holes and then erected the utility poles. Crews from North Carolina arrived and have worked non-stop, first sawing through trees blocking the roads, then going back and chipping all the fallen trees and throwing the mulch to the side. All up and down the roads are trucks from electric companies with men up in cherry pickers re-stringing the electric cable. On the hardest hit road, the trucks were spaced every 100 yards or so apart for about two miles. The Salvation Army which has a camp on Grandview Lake came out on Saturday morning and delivered jugs of water to residents then cooked up a beef stew and began giving it out along with pastries & crackers to the workers and neighbors who had no power. Because we are all on well water here, when the electricity goes out, our water goes out. The few neighbors on the periphery who had power were offering water/baths to others. Some are even housing others. Disasters seem to pull communities together. We are very grateful that we sustained no damage personally, but mostly for all the people who rallied to put our community back together.
Glad you stayed safe.