Blackout!

Sunday afternoon we had some really high winds. These winds were so strong that huge trees were pulled out of the ground roots and all. We were very fortunate that we only had small branches and some shingles from our roof come off. We lost our power from 2:00 pm-10pm and some places still do not have power. We lost our phone lines and internet service for a few days too. They say that Duke energy has over 800,000 costumers and over 600,000 were without power. The number has gone down now, but many still do not have power, water, and/or phone service. We were on our way to church Sunday night when we noticed all the damage around us. Many business closed, street lights were out, and houses were damaged. We made it to our church building, which is meeting in a Lakota school right now until we build a building, but with no power we ended up going to a near by members home and had our Church Anniversary dinner there and short service and than back home to candles and a hand held radio. Nolan loved reading books with his flashlight. Well since, many lights are still out many of the schools our closed. well this leads to trouble around our neighborhood. A few years ago when school was out for the summer some bored kids went around breaking car windows and stealing items from the cars...Well last night Nathaniel work up around 2 am and as I was feeding him I heard this crash like glass. I thought great someone is breaking into a car... well I could not see anything when I looked out the window.. but this morning Gail came back in from starting his car up for work and said that someone threw a glass jar of pickles at his car last night and there is glass everywhere. I was just thankful that the car was fine. I told him some bored kids out late at night b/c there is no school tomorrow...Well I need to see if I can reach the Dr. office. Nathaniel had his 7mt checkup/shots due on Monday, but due to the blackout... they were closed Mon. and Tues. So I am hoping I can get through to them today...I having a feeling it is going to be crazy with everyone trying to reschdule their appointments.