With the fierce winds that barreled through KY last night came lots of damage. In Louisville, there was one area particularly hard hit. It happens to be the area of town where we used to live and still own a house.

I drove by this morning to see if there was any damage to our house there.

First of all, let me say there was no damage to our house or the house next door. The tree that fell was an oak, about 100 years old. It was in the front of the neighbors house to the right. Had this tree fallen a different direction, it would have crashed into the neighbors house, possibly hurting or killing a wonderful 80 year old widow. Instead it fell across our driveway and front yard, and only damaged a Bradford Pear tree that was in front of our house. Blessing number one.

While I was there for about an hour this morning, several tree companies stopped by to offer their tree removal services for anywhere from $500-1000. But about an hour after I left, the city came by and removed it completely for free. According to my neighbor, it was completely cleaned up by 3pm. Blessing number 2.

We now live about 10 miles east of this home, in the direction the winds were coming through. It sounded like my house was being torn apart for about 4 hours. It seriously was eerie. I was home alone, which made me even more frightened. I went out this morning to look around, and not a bit of damage, not even an overturned garbage can. Blessing number 3.

Ben is scared to pieces of storms, especially those with high winds that sound like tornadoes. But he had spent the night with my mom last night. She lives south of where most of the damage was done and said they didn't get more than a few minutes of rain and gusty wind. Ben was not afraid there. Blessing number 4.

Shall I go on? I probably could. But I'll stop now and just share some pictures.