First views

Finally we got to see what caused all the noise overnight.
(Although these photos don’t really do it justice 😦 )

The back yard…

The driveway…

The front yards were full on downed lines and electicity poles on angles.

A nap …

Our champion tree guys, came and cleared out driveway so that we could get out 🙂
(a big thank you to Carew Tree Experts)

A quick walk down our street showed us how lucky we’d been…

Unfortunately strong winds and old beautiful trees are not compatible. Luckily Maplewood escaped the flood waters though.
After walking around our area, we were feeling pretty lucky 🙂 …and we hadn’t even seen the media reports of other areas 😦