We could have had a REAL hole in our house.....

Yesterday jon called to tell me he was going to be picking me up at UNO to go home for the day. As I was packing up my bags I could hear the emergency weather sirens going off outside and not long after this the emergency lights started flashing in my building and we were all instructed there was a strong thunderstorm not far from Omaha. Jon and I made it home in the nick of time - when we pulled into the garage it was normal outside and when we walked upstairs into our house and looked out the windows it looked like it was the middle of the night it was so dark outside. The wind started to blow like crazy (reports say that there were gusts over 100 miles per hour) and we had hail and heavy rain. We could hardly see anything out our windows, but once in awhile we would see a huge tree branch pass by, then the grill and our lawn furniture slid across our porch. When all was said and done with this 5 minute storm we went outside to see the destruction - and we were lucky - we only had a few branches down out of our big oak tree in the front yard (granted one rather large branch landed on all of my flowers which were finally starting to fill in and look good - how sad) and the main branch of our peach tree in the back yard was completely gone so we are going to have to say goodbye to the peach tree. We went outside and got to work cleaning up our yard and all of our neighbors were outside cleaning up too and helping others. We were definitely lucky - I will attach other pictures from our neighborhood. Some people had whole trees uprooted or broken off at the base, some trees landed on cars and houses, there were fires from down power lines everywhere and well - it was a mess and we feel thankful to be one of the lucky ones.....

Our damage..........
Other damage in our neighborhood............