Tornado Weather

This is bound to go down in history as the funkiest winter we've ever had.  Hardly any snow and warm, warm, warm temperatures.  I mean seriously, 80 degrees in the FIRST half of March?  More than a week in the 70's?  But with the warm comes the storms and the first one of the "spring" (if you can call March 15th spring in Michigan) was a doozy.

This was the sky looking north just after the tornado sirens stopped.  At the time, we didn't know that the tornados had hit Dexter, one town over from here.

My friend's parent's were smack in the middle of it and had a lot of damage to the barn and trees but luckily the house was fine.  The barn is pretty much totaled - the roof is gone and most of two sides.

The piles of debris and trees was amazing.  Part of their neighbor's garage was in this pile.

This is three days into the clean up.  An amazing about of wood has been cut up and stacked everywhere.

 Their big goal was to clear a path so they could get the semi truck out of the back yard so Sheri's Dad could work again.  That got done!

So many big beautiful trees all gone in the blink of an eye.

When you lose so much in such a little amount of time it really makes you pause to think about what's important in life.