Before and after the "Storm".

I am enclosing some pictures I took. Several before the "storm" and some during and after. We were hit hard Friday late afternoon. First the Wind, then the hail, then tornado's. And rain, rain rain..................

We had golf ball size hail, some smaller and some bigger. I did catch some in pictures. The hail did little damage to the yard except to strip a lot of leaves off the trees. Thank the Good Lord thats all the damage we had.

Especially since Belton area had 3 confirmed tornado's, one being with in less than a mile from our house. One touched down very near our Wal Mart (across the town from us) one out near the lake, and one that destroyed a lot of cars at the intersection of US 190 and I35. Quite a few fences knocked over along with trees. I heard one house was damaged, but unsure where. The fact that God was watching out for our town was obvious. The storm had us in the hallway for quite awhile. The hail hitting was loud!!!!. The subdivision where Carol and Becky live was with out power for hours. They came over to stay with us since our lights were on. AC running. We offered to let them stay, but Carol went over to find the lights back on so they could sleep at home. Jessica and her family were in Georgetown and called to see about everyone. Becky recommended staying over night there since the storm was nearing them..

Becky said Jennifers car was badly damaged by the hail. They were at a friends house not a half mile from us.

Saturday morning was clear and absolutly beautiful. We drove to Cedar Park to a water garden's "Lily Blossom Festival". What a great time we had. Along the way we stopped a community garage sale. We stopped at nearly all. Got some baby clothes for the new one due and some for Shelby and Annalise too. Picked up box full of yarn! was marked .50 ea pc, I got the whole box full for $3, Sarah will get most, the rest for Shanna. Probably will wait till she gets stateside to send it. Quite a few books for the gr. grands and more.

(one the way back home we stopped at one and the gave us 8 jigsaw puzzles and 4 afghans.)

The lily blossom festival was awesome! They have greatly expanded the property so it was huge. Large crowds. Free sausage wraps, brisket wraps and drinks were wonderful. The employees were so very helpful. We got the filter material for the pumps for the ponds, 3 hibiscus bushes in 3 ga. pots were 15 ea. So we got 3. 2 were varigated leaves, with red blooms and 1 was a super yellow. The had a zydego band too. We will have to return next year. I guess you can tell which picture are which.