I usually go to sleep with the TV on because I have ringing in my ears and that sort of drowns out the ringing. I also like the soft light it puts out as I don't feel so alone.

It seemed as if I had just dropped off to sleep when I was awakened by something and opened my eyes to total darkness. There was no rain, no wind, no lightening nor thunder just deadly silence. Just then my cell phone rang and it was a friend that was awake and asking if the sirens had gone off for the tornado warning. No I told her. Nothing here but darkness as the whole town has no electricity. She almost went into hysterics as her son lives in town and has to have two sump pumps running in even in dry weather as he gets water in his basement continually. She hung up and just as I was about to go back to sleep, she called again saying he wouldn't answer his phone and she was worried about the animals in the cages down in his basement. Again, she hung up and again about twenty minutes later she calls and asks the same things she did 40 minutes earlier. By this time it is 2:00 a.m. and I am feeling really light headed from lack of sleep. Finally the lights come on and she backs off saying she hope his sump pumps are working and haven't burned up.

She is also angry that the house she lives in doesn't have a good roof and has to have buckets set out and has to mop up the floors and empty buckets of water. I do understand that she is angry, but it is her choice to live out in the country by herself with all of her cats and dogs in a house that she knows the owner will not fix up for her to live in. In fact, he is hoping that the house falls down around her so he can have the ground the house sits on plowed up for more farm land.

Now tonight, it is supposed to storm again and I will have to go to work tomorrow and I am hoping the storms will not come through where I live. There has been so much rain and wind these last few days that some people are praying for a drought. Not me because I know that in just a few weeks everyone will be complaining how dry it is. All I am praying for is no storms or any more damage to anyone's homes. I was lucky, my house was hit by lightening yesterday morning and I didn't have any damage. Not even the stove. Usually when the house get hit by lightening, the stove is the first to go. So far so good.

The surrounding towns and counties had a lot of damage to buildings and to their trees. No injuries and that was a blessing.

Praise God that there were no deaths or injuries in this last storm!