Oh, what a day!!

When I woke up this morning (at 6-something) Dave was already up and ready to leave the house.  He'd gotten a phone call at 6:00 that the church had been hit by a lightning strike and there was damage.  That was an understatement!  One of the parapets or decorations on our bell tower had been hit and it exploded down onto the roof and onto the sidewalk and yard.  You can see from the picture that the second one also was moved and it's sitting there rather precariously at this moment.  I wish I'd gotten a picture of the roof.  There's a huge boulder of concrete that fell onto the roof (and INTO the ceiling) over the little room between Pastor's office and the secretary's office.  

This is just a portion of the rubble.  It is scattered even 10-15 feet past the windows on the right of this picture!

That big stone put quite a dent into the sidewalk.  The other big one (about that size) is in the roof!!!

Meanwhile, this is what was going on at OUR house!  A water main broke just east of our yard (in the road) on Friday.  The water guy who looked at it Friday thought it could wait until Monday to get fixed!  So, when I woke up these machines were making a bunch of noise!!

Thank goodness they didn't have to dig in our yard.  Dave takes great pride in our lawn and that could have been a horrible mess!  Such excitement!!

More later...