Freak Storm

Last Thursday was a really weird day. We were supposed to get some pretty strong storms, and that we did. What made it so weird, is it was just wind...no rain. The wind was real strong. It was taking tops of trees plum off and carrying them down the road. We lost power pretty much as soon as it hit. The house got hot fast so we were staying outside as much as possible. I am fascinated with weather so I took a couple of pictures of the clouds.

I had a little bit of battery left on my phone so I started looking for our news to post updates as to what happened. They finally posted the winds were straight line winds and with one power company there over 26,000 people without power. We didn't get power back until 12:30 p.m. Friday afternoon. Friday was also a weird day for us. With no power I obviously could not work. I was sitting at the table writing when my mom's outside dogs just started going crazy. They have a fox that likes to go back there and also a cat that likes to tease them. I just figured it was one of the two. After a few minutes I decided to try to get them to be quiet. They did hush up and looked at me. I sat back down and here they go again just going to town. I got back up and looked and I happened to notice that they were all barking at something that was not just outside of their fence. I went to look out a different window and was mortified at what I thought I was seeing. I instantly thought there was a snake in one of the pens, but it was huge. I decided I was just being silly and it had to be a cat or a bird or something. I am the only person in the house mind you and my phone battery was dead. I run to my car to use my car charger to charge it up and decide to go take one more look to make sure I wasn't crazy. Whatever it was had moved and it had moved to a stump. I thought I saw blue so I decided there was no way it could be a snake. I go back to my car and sit...it feels like forever to boot back up. I called my mom who was taking Maddy to school for me. She had just gotten to daycare so I had to wait for her to call me back. I told her there was a snake or cat or bird in with two of the dogs. Me being the silly person that I was just had to go back inside to get a better look at what exactly it was. Let me first say that I am just beyond terrified of snakes. It's not just a fear it's beyond that. I can have nightmares JUST from saying the word "snake" so why I had to know what was in the fence is beyond me. I'm on the phone with my mom and see it had moved again it this time I could see the head and it was indeed a snake. It was a big one and I just started crying because I saw it myself and then I was worried about the dogs getting bit. When I was pregnant with Maddy there was a diamond back rattlesnake in our backyard that my mom's dog and Manny were trying to scare off. Last week there was a black snake on our neighbor's sidewalk so they stay around lol. I had a freak out moment and needed someone there immediately. My mom decided to call my uncle who lives 5 min. away but I tell you I think it took like 20 min for him to get there lol. I ran out to him when he got there. Once he got back there he thought it looked poisonous. He said it was something you would see on National Geographic and he wasn't going to try to throw it back in the woods. He told my mom he needed a gun that it looked mean and he didn't feel comfortable trying to get it out. My step dad got home just in time to get his shot gun and well you know the rest. My mom got a picture of it before my step dad got there. 

My mom googled it and she thinks it is a chicken snake. By the time it was gone I was just done for the day. Luckily once the power came on our internet was still down so I didn't have to work that day and I could just try to calm down a bit lol. The storm actually fried my work computer so I haven't been to work at all this week either. I just received the part I have to swap, but I have to wait for them to call me. I'm hoping they don't call me till later today lol. I really don't mind having one more day off.