I am writing this hear to let everyone know that yes we are fine and give you a few details of what happened on Sunday.
We went out in the morning and did some Geocaching, then went to a horse show in Nashville, (no not Tennessee- Michigan) it is west and north of Charlotte. Danielle and her dad pulled the horse trailer we were just going to watch. The sky was getting really dark and the announcer said their was severe weather headed our way so we decided to leave early. On the way home, on Royston Rd. (here is a link to the map http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl ) north of Bellevue Road the radio said there was a tornado sighted in Eaton county. I looked to the southwest and said there it is - there is a funnel cloud. We turned on to Springport /Holibaugh road and it looked like the cloud had dispersed, but you could see the line of storms. We got almost to Markle Rd. and couldn't see the hood of the car, so Charlie stopped and turned on the flashers. The wind was so bad the car shook, it felt like we were going down a really really bump road and the car felt like it was going sideways. I was sure it was going to break the windows. Charlie said he thought it was going to flip. I closed my eyes took a deep breath and thought OK what ever happens happens, there's nothing I can do about it now.
When the rain and wind let up we tried to proceed. Just passed Markle Rd. there was a tree, a whole tree down across the road. Since we had no chain saw or chain in the car we backed up thought we would try Markle. Nope two trees across down.
Back tracked, met a couple of vehicles that said they couldn't get through on M50/99. Our next door neighbor who happened to be behind us at the Bellevue Rd turn pulled into someones drive way and the wind took his truck camper off the truck and threw it against a tree.
We tried Royston.Lots of brush, water across the road and a wire down in the water that we didn't see until we were already on it, the utility pole was broken in half.
Another tree. two guys in a Pick up had a chain saw at home and went back to get it. By the time they got there there were at least 4 vehicles behind us including our horse and trailer. They cut through 3 trees, before we got to Love's farm. There was a tree on top of his tractor, and wires down across the road and the drive. Decided to try Springport Road again. The workers were out removing trees, so we were finally able to get through. It took over 2 hours to go less than a mile. At one point Charlie said we don't even know if the house is still there. I said if it isn't we can consider ourselves lucky that we weren't in it.
We were lucky, we lost trees, and have to repair the corner of the roof. But the house is still there the horses and the dog and the chickens are fine.
It's just HOT and humid and lots of clean up work to do.
