Most of my neighbors in Amity Township spent the weekend cleaning up the damage caused by an intense storm which swept through our area on Friday evening around the dinner
hour...
According to the weather 'experts' no tornado was seen to touch down by local radar...
Except Amity is literally within a valley surrounded on all sides by substantial hills...in fact, I'm always kidding my children by saying we live in a former volcano or a large meteorite-caused crater... and lest I'm mistaken, radar, is only able to detect line of sight occurrences, and the damage to our area was focused mainly on low lying areas, particularly those in heavily clustered treed areas and densely wooded areas along creeks and gullies...
Hence the term 'flying under the radar' typically applies to this one hour duration, mile and a half wide, catastrophic storm...
Our home suffered a screen panel torn off our french doors and two major limbs brought down on two trees...even though our Star Spangled Banner continued to wave atop its twenty foot mast, unmolested by the ravages of Mother Nature, attesting further that we live in the home of the brave...
Only by the Grace of God were lives spared and damage to residences kept to an unbelievable minimum...
In any case, tornado or no, Amity residences are counting our blessings, and thanking God that the powerful winds and bigger than golf-ball sized hail didn't damage our most precious possessions...our family members...!!!
In just a few days, no one but us will know that anything unusual and so devastating occurred in our resilient and lovely neighborhood...!!!
Amity lives...!!!
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