Tables in the air???

Last night we got a whopper thunderstorm, high winds & possibly some funnels (no one's sure on that part). While I took shelter in a church basement away from home, Hubby & kids stayed in the basement for about 45 minutes during the tornado watch. When they came up, Hubby found our neighbor's trampoline in our yard & everything cleared off the patio except the grill, hose hideaway & storage bin; ironically those were the lightest items. The heavy BBQ grill only stayed on the patio because it had been moved up against the concrete patio step. Everything else was either blown or picked off the patio into the yard anywhere from five to 25 feet from the patio. Son's playhouse roof was thrown into the neighbor's yard in two different pieces. Our six-person patio table was picked up & thrown upside down into the grass where the patio umbrella snapped in half & the tempered glass on the table shattered into thousands of pieces. The patio chairs were strewn about ours & our neighbor's yard. Amazingly, the swing set was untouched & trampoline moved only a couple of inches.



It's odd how the wind was selective about what it chose to move or destroy. Ours, as well as two of our neighbors (one next door to the right & the other two doors to the left), had their patios cleared & destroyed as well. Yet the houses behind us were untouched! As frustrating as all this is, I'm thankful it was only our patio furniture & not my family or our house. If the wind had been going the other way, it very well could have picked up that same furniture & tossed it through our 'picture window' which would have been worse on so many levels!