It is tornado season around here.
I swear that for the last 4 weeks there as been at least 1 day each week where we have been threatened by bad weather.
And I mean the kind of weather that keeps kids out of school and makes you miss your favorite TV shows because James Spann or Jerry Tracey have taken over the airwaves.
We have been lucky enough to weather each storm without a bit of damage.
Until today.
The storm today was a short one but oh was it powerful.
The lightning was crazy, the thunder so loud, and the rain coming down by the bucketfuls (sp??)!
Interestingly enough, I did not hear anything happen to our house.
But as soon as I opened the door to my scraproom, I knew that our luck had run out.
So please, please help me sift through the damage.
I am going to attempt to clean up this mess for the rest of the afternoon.
If you would like some of this stuff (you know, only the stuff that has not been water damaged or blown away by the high velocity winds of course), please leave a comment here.
If I ever manage to crawl out from under the ruins, I will draw a few random winners to get a box of stuff.
:)
gretchen
**Edited: My scraproom didn't really get damaged by any storm. Didn't your mom ever tell you, "Hey! Clean up this room. It looks like a tornado came through here!"??
Thank you all so much for your concern, however!**
33 comments:
Oh, my. I see a stack of layouts there. I hope they all survived!
I'm glad you guys are ok! Cleaning out the scrapbook room is also on my to-do list!
That sucks! I used to live farther up in Tornado Ally, now I live in Austin, not so many tornados. But we still get the warnings.
I remember hiding with my daughter in our tub and closets when lived in Denton. I hate the warning sound more than anything in the world.
Good Luck with cleaning and the rest of the season.
I hope that the damage from the tornado was minimal and that this will be the end of the bad weather for you! laura j
i'm so sorry to hear about the storm. i hope there is not much damage. :)
my car was damaged in a storm once. i feel bad hearing the damage done to you. hope you can save your layouts - gian de la rama
I don't even live close to Tornado Alley and everytime I open my scrap room door it seems like one has swept through there as well.....
Hope you get it cleaned up soon....good luck
So relieved I wasn't the only one! :)
I'm so sorry Gretchen. I hope you didn't lose too much - especially completed layouts and projects. Sadness......
Funny! I was looking at the pic thinking" I don't see any water damage..." I should have picked up on the humor right away-- my mom always said that!!!
Pretty curtains in the back-- do they line your wall??
glad to know somebody else's scraproom looks like a tornado went thru it :)
oh you're funny. i was actually starting to worry about you. :)
Send some of that scrapbooking tornado my way :).
Glad you're just kidding!
That's pretty funny! I feel your pain. My house is D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-D! My problem is that I'm too tired and/or lazy to do anything. I spent most of yesterday spring cleaning. ;D
I thought you were for real! ;) Yeah the scraproom is the messiest in this house too!
Well, I cannot harrass you too much about the mess *Dang it!* because mine doesn't look much better.
You can send a little bit of that sbing goodness my way.;)
Your family is still in my prayers.
I'll be glad to help you out with your mess! Pick me, pick me!
(I live in Alabama, too. It has been a crazy April and May, hasn't it? I'm ready for June and NO MORE SIRENS!)
you are crazy!! i was thinking - it looks just like my messy room!! :) I actually cleaned mine Saturday, but sadly I have about ten boxes left to unpack so it won't stay neat for long!!
I shouldn't leave a comment because I am trying to use up my supplies, but how can I resist a few goodies from your stash?! Count me in. xoxo
hey Gretchen we had hail damage too! this will be a good cleansing for you! send any of your stuff my way!! Grandmaryb
Oh - you really shocked me! Hope everything is doing ok and your scrap-treasures still live!
I now how precious these are!
Lovely greetings from over the ocean
Katharina from the BlackForestRegion/Germany
OOPS - now I got it - THESE kinds of tornados are well known over here - while the real ones don't exist here - UFF!
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I love your sense of humor! Would love to win some goodies - thanks for the chance!
I want to see the "after" picture!
It's always fun to play with new scrap goodies, I'd be happy to take some off your hands!
Thanks,
Chelsea
oh my goodness....thats exactly why i dont have a room just an area...lol Hope you get it cleaned up and stay safe
Don't you just love the weather here in the "Ham"? Hope you got it all straightened out! :)
Ha, ha! Please, send me some stuff! And, yes, my Mother told me that on a daily basis, so I now I say it to my children It's a wonderful cycle. And, yes, I am officially tired of James Spann. Ready for the forecast to be "Hot, hot and hot." At least it's predictable.
My scraproom looks like that, too! But I have learned to embrace the chaos. :)
Sorry to hear about Memory Makers folding.
Wow sorry to hear about the storms. I thought you were serious I would freak out!!! The scrap stuff is always the messiest!
hurricane gretch.
Please send me some I'll even come help you clean.
SORRY ABOUT YOUR SCRAP ROOM, BUT IM GLAD EVERYONE IS WELL AND SAFE.HOPE TOU GET IT ALL CLESNED OUT, IF SO I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOME! THANKS
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