Backyard Spared Despite Crazy Destructive Storm

This happened a half block away from my house during that killer storm Wednesday night:



Amazingly, my patio and backyard are fine, though littered with debris. In fact, my potted plants even stayed put! Nice.

During the storm, I was stuck at school. -S and I went to the atrium and observed the whole deal through a huge wall of windows. Clouds circling above, light-poles bending sideways, rain blowing diagonally. It was pretty neat until we decided maybe standing under all those windows wasn't the best idea (mental image of night custodians coming on duty to find UJ and -s. sprawled in the middle of the atrium with huge slivers of glass pierced through their hearts) so we returned to our respective study areas and stuck it out.