Who knew a hurricane could come barging through Cincinnati! Not so much rain, actually none at all, but high winds with gusts up to 75 mph. And who knew that the biggest tree in our backyard would fall into our house. By the grace of God, our house has no significant damage. The gutters will probably need to be replaced, and maybe the deck is scratched up. We don't know because we haven't had the tree removed yet. But we are so thankful to God that nothing happened to any of us or the house! God was really looking out for us because the umbrella in our patio table is still standing straight up, surrounded by tree branches, and Adam's climbing toy was not hit at all by the trunk of the tree. It's amazing!
The tree was so large that we probably won't have a lot of shade in the backyard now. The big tree took out at least one more smaller tree in front of it. The large tree actually looks like two different trees now on the ground. One half is laying on our deck and the other half is laying on top of our neighbor's fence, which isn't damaged either.
Ben and I were sitting in the family room when the tree hit, and I've never seen Ben jump so high and so fast in my life! We quickly ran upstairs to get both boys (they were napping), and we ran across the street to our neighbors just in case more trees were going to fall.
Of course, pictures really don't do justice to the size of this thing, but here's a slideshow with some shots we took.
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