We arrived home late last night - we had been in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for the MAAD softball tournament all weeekend.
The storm did hit us on our way out of town Wednesday evening - but we didn't know how severe it had been until we were in Iowa Thursday afternoon... our parents sent us emails telling us what had happened that day.
We got through lucky - only the front glass storm door was damaged - apparently it blew loose and was slammed against the house over and over until the glass shattered. MizzDeaf's parents came over and took the door off, cleaned up the glass and checked the house.
My parents were over every day, taking care of the cats and letting me know of the electrical situation - our electricity was off along with the rest of the north county area.
Yes, the food in the refrigerator and freezer spoiled - however, my parents cleaned it out yesterday morning and took it all home with them, as their trash pick up was today. Ours wouldn't happen until Friday, and by then, it would be totally ripe and flies would be doing cartwheels over the trash can.
We have quite a bit of work to do at home - laundry, some clean-up, replacement of the glass door and little things like that, but we are very much thankful that everything weathered the storm well.
Yes, our electricity is back on - apparently it came back on just before we got home. Yah!!! The house finally cooled off overnight, and the fridge was back to its cold self when I left for work this morning.
Thank goodness for small favors.
