Trying to catch up again, these photos are from last week! My last day was Wednesday, so on Thursday, Justin took Jordyn to school. When he went to pick her up, there were tornado warnings for the Red Feather area (very rare for the mountains, but it does happen every 30 years or so). Anyways, on his way to get her, he saw all kinds of tornado fingers forming, but none touching down...what he did see though, was all the damage that happened on the Manhattan road only minutes before he passed through there (thank goodness he was running late that day). Anyways, when my cousin came up the next day, we decided to enjoy a day in Red Feather and scope out the storm damage. First we picked Jordyn up from school, and naturally gave Christy a tour of Gnome Road, which she loved...
Then we took some photos on our way home of the damage on the Manhattan road. These photos dont quite do it justice, but WOW! Over 200 trees down!
Here is a shot of Jordyn and i next to a HUGE downed tree...look at the size of those roots...
and this is a full shot of that same tree!
Here is a shot of Jordyn enjoying her ice cream next to another downed tree...its hard to see, but her face is covered in ice cream!
And here is a row of trees completely uprooted and laying on their sides where they fell. Very sad to see all these beautiful trees torn down, especially since they just cleared the area of beetle kill recently, so the area was pretty sparse already. Anyways, im just glad Justin and Jordyn didnt get caught up in all this! The kids were actually pulled off of the school bus, and had to remain in the building until the tornado threat was gone...except of course my storm chasing family, that hopped in the car to check it out! :)
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