So we planned a fun outing for Saturday, October 26. We had seen signs and articles about the Robins Street Art Stroll. This was a block or so of arts and crafts vendors, food trucks and the high school band entertaining. Sounds like a lovely fall day event doesn’t it?
The day before, the weather man hit us with 100 percent chance of rain on Friday and rain it did all day long. Saturday the chance of rain was down to 80 percent! The event was then rescheduled to be held indoors at an old school building. Still doable and still sounds fun!
Saturday dawns but who could tell the sun was up with all the gloom. Patti had a fun video call scheduled with some of her kin back home so the day still started with a smile or two! The weather soon turned uglier and we were under a severe thunderstorm watch. The winds came and blew and bellowed. Our electricity suddenly stopped . When the storm finally seemed to have passed we surveyed our damage, just some small branches to pick up in the yard and the outside table umbrella had taken a little flight to the other side of the yard, some shingles gone from the old shed out back (scheduled for roofing anyway!) – so all told no major damage. We decided what the heck, nothing to do here, no electric so nothing to do–let’s go see if they have power at the school and see if the Art stroll is still going!
On the way, we noticed many traffic lights out (but not all of them!) and trees down here and there, some across the roads and some on houses Yikes! The song of chain saws filled the air. We saw some businesses closed with “no power” signs on the doors. We wound our way down to the school and yep—they had power ! Lots of vendors set up inside and we enjoyed seeing all the different craft ideas. Poor attendance though so I felt really sorry for the craftspeople. Food trucks not in sight , I guess they all bailed and who could blame them. No high school band either. By the time we came out of the school, it was spitting rain again so we made a quick stop at KFC and got some take out in case we still had no power! We didn’t but luckily it did come back on not too long after we got home. Hurrah!!
The picture above is the Tupelo mayor’s home. He was trapped for over an hour according to the news, but expected to be okay the last we heard. The storm was aftermath of Tropical storm Olga. Well Olga was ugly! We sure seem to have issues with planning outings. It’s not the first time we have planned to go somewhere and mother nature just wanted us to stay home! At least she didn’t drop a tree on our house, so bless her for that!
Yikes that’s scary, glad your ok 🙏