Long Weekend

"I can not upload pics right now (not sure why) as soon as I can I will upload the pics."

It has been a wet and windy weekend here in Putnam County. A tornado swept through the Glandorf area on Friday night/Saturday morning at 12:30 am (about a mile away from my parents home and 1-2 miles away from ours) and around 1:30 our basement flooded due to lack of power.

Paul and I spent from 1:30 in the morning till about 3 bucketing out water (approx. 750 gals). Then at 3 my dad finally arrived with a generator and it was a bit easier to sit around and drink beer while the pump did all the work. So we made it to bed at 6 am and were supposed to be up around 7 to have our engagement photos taken, needless to say we canceled our pictures and are now preparing to take them this weekend.

The tornado did quite a bit of damage as it ripped through an area deemed Schroederville, due to the amount of families who live there and have the last name Schroeder. I believe in total 8 houses were damaged one being pretty much leveled, another lost the roof, one lost a garage, many trees were up rooted, and many barns were damaged.

The pictures I took do not due the devastation justice. To see it in person looks horrifying and the pictures only give you a minute idea of what it looks like. My heart goes out to all the families that had destruction done to their property and I hope Putnam county has seen the last of its natural disasters for years to come.