A quick run down. I went to a shelter instead of staying in my house (i've got 2 big trees in front of it and didn't want to risk what'd happen if they fell), but the shelter isn't too far away frlom where I live anyway. So anyway, I got there late Sunday night and nothing really happened to around 7am the next morning. That's when the wind started picking up. It was probably about 40-50mph at that time. There was a walkway at the shelter so you could stand out there during that part if you wanted to since it wasn't too bad at that point. About that time the power went out, which was in some ways good because it caused everyone to finally settle down. Around 8:45 is when everyone was told to go inside because the eye was suppose to be near. It wasn't till about 9:30 that you could really hear what was going on outside. It got to the point where it sounded like people were jumping on top of the cieling over and over because the the roof was slowly being ripped and things were being bounced off of it. After about 30mins into it people start trying to see how of a window to see what it looked like outside which didn't do much good. Everything outside looked greyish white because of the wind blowing the rain and debri around so fast so that you couldn't see more than a few feet outside the window.
I lost track of time around then, but the "calm" came a little while after that and for a quick time you could see what'd happened. The building across the street had its roof ripped off, shingles had been completely ripped off a new church that was down the street and a tree was fell on top of a car that was sitting near it, and lots of power polls down. It started back up soon after, although the winds weren't as bad they still blew down some trees and ripped signs and power polls down. But you could still see during the second half which wasn't really possible during the first. It was pretty much over 2 hours after that. I left to go home a few hours after that. On my way home I saw several houses that were either completely destroyed (meaning ripped from their foundation) or had trees laying on or through a house. There wasn't too much flooding though outside of the roads. Atleast from what I saw on my way home.
My house had some windows busted out and some shingles ripped from the roof. And 2 trees behind it fell (not the ones in front thankfully). But other than that everything was basically fine.
In general I didn't really want to make too big of a deal out of it because what happened to me and my house isn't anywhere near what happened to people in Louisiana and some other places. It sucked and I wouldn't want to go through it again, but I shouldn't really complain too much given whats happened to them.
