July 2011 Storm – Northern IL

Did you hear about the storm that went thru the Chicagoland area last Monday?  Over 850,000 were without power for extended periods of time.  Our house was without power for 2 and 1/2 days.  But there are still some without power today. 

We had 2 trees that were “topped”.  The wind was so strong that the tops of MANY trees were just sheared off. – hence the no power.

And here is the top of this tree – It took John 3 day to clean and then burn this.  Now we can work on the choke cherry tree that landed on the fence.  There’s always something to do around here.