We heard the freight train...

just like people say it sounds as a tornado goes by. It was followed by a loud crashing sound. I got Sandy up and we went to the first floor for safety. That was about midnight.

When the storm was mostly over I went outside in the rain to see how bad it had been. Up to that point I thought it was just a really nasty storm.

That's when I noticed a large metal locker at the end of the walk and a trashcan on top of a whiskey barrel planter. Both had been about 20 feet away under our carport. Obviously something was wrong with that picture.

I looked around the corner to find our carport crashed on top of the Buick. It had been lifted right out of the ground. The carport contents were strewn all over creation.

Part of the white tarp that was on top of it is in the top of a tree about 100 yards away looking like a giant ghost.

We called 911 to report the damage. About 1:30am a sheriff's deputy came by to be sure no one had been hurt.

He reported the tornado had moved two cars parked at a nearby house and damage had been done to the house across the county road from the new house. Also power lines are down on the road by the new house. We lost power at the apartment for about an hour.

There doesn't appear to be any damage to the apartment though it did suck open the bathroom window and then closed it again on the curtains which were then hanging out in the rain.

In the morning I took lots of pictures both at the apartment and then down at the new house. There was no damage there except the entire floor of the building was covered with muddy water at least an eighth of an inch deep. A door had blown open and apparently the wind had roared through the building.

Many trees were down, both on our property and across the county road. Two fell all the way onto the front of the house but incredibly did no damage. The very tops of the trees were leaning against our new windows without even a scratch on the frames.

Two of the panels on the rafter extensions were missing and one was damaged. I found one of the panels had just flipped over onto the roof, still connected by the flashing. The other was found behind the house about 70 yards from where it started.

Here's a link to the pictures.