Middle Georgia Ice Storm

Two days without water and electricity

feels like an eternity.

Ice storm hit Middle Georgia

around 4 am on Wednesday morning.

We awoke to this...

Beautiful!

The Georgia Pines were never so pretty.

Then everything began to go
snap, crackle and POP in the night!

Someone on Facebook wrote,
"The only thing that should go snap, crackle, and pop
 is my morning cereal."

It sounded like firecrackers popping,
cannons exploding,
and
thunder rolling.

I heard a crack and then a boom.

We were more than terrified to see a limb
 through the ceiling in my pretty pink room.

Earlier one had fallen on my husband's truck.

It was a lonnnng night,
the coldest I have ever been in my own home
and the most afraid I have ever been
in a storm.

The next morning we were better able to assess the damage.
This is the limb from the outside view.

This is what we see now.

This walk around my neighborhood was different this time.

There was massive damage to the trees around the church.

As for as I know, no damage to the building.
Nothing short of miraculous!

Today the clean-up continues.

Yesterday,
a man stopped by with a chain saw.
His mom needed firewood.

We blessed him,
He blessed us more.

An evangelist friend and a church member
stopped by with another chain saw
and helped us remove limbs from the
power lines and roof.
Another blessing.

Today, clean-up continues.

Two insurance claims,
but we are safe,
now warm
with full tummies.

The Biggest Blessing of All!

With a Grateful Heart,
Bonnie:)