Last month (June) and the month before (May), we had a lot of rain. To escape the flood in our basement, we jumped aboard the ark. Well… maybe not. But we wished we could. Instead we moved stuff here and there to escape the water that was continually streaming into the basement. Then it stopped, and there was peace (except the wind). Then, out of nowhere, we had a storm that lasted about 15 minutes. It certainly didn’t do 15 minutes worth of damage. It took several large branches off two of our trees, and there were branches down all over town. I’m not sure if they even qualify as trees anymore, as they’ve both lost about two-thirds of their branches to date (the front tree lost another large branch while we were on vacation-more on that later). To prove it, I took pictures.