The age old saying, “Be careful what you wish for.” We have been wishing for rain for weeks. So hot and dry days on end. Well Wednesday late afternoon it clouds up and the wind blows hard. The rain comes down in torrents for about 2 hours. The first hour saw 1.61 inches in just 30 mins and then it eased off and the wind died down.

We turned in for the night around 10pm. At 12:30am we were jolted out of bed from a horrendous crash right outside the bedroom. A large Mimosa tree, that had apparently been growing at a 45 degree angle for years, gave up the fight against gravity and came crashing down partially on the 12X20 shop next to the house.

The impact punched a 2 foot hole in the roof but did not crush the shop.Talk about lucky! The landlord was great, getting out here by 9am and cleaning up the tree and repairing the roof.