Did Someone Mention Tree Limbs Down?

Some nasty weather blew through here this morning.  It wasn't too bad in Grand Haven, so OSLO brought the COTU here so that TJ could attend his science camp.  When they got to about James Street and the highway, the traffic lights were all out between there and our house.  She picked me up and we headed for Hope about an hour before his class was to begin -- it is normally a 10 or 12 minute drive.  It took nearly the full hour. The city of Holland got hit pretty hard, including this tree uprooted on the Hope College Campus.

The roof on Padnos Scrap Metal building was torn off, blocking traffic, and forcing the closing of the southbound lanes on the bridge over the Black River.

My exercise for the day was a couple of walks back and forth across the campus, checking out the storm damage.  Most of their fallen tree limbs had been cleaned up by the time I picked up TJ at 4:30, and most of the traffic lights through town were back in operation.  We were packing up stuff from the freezer about 5:30 to take out to the beach refrigerator -- hoping that it was working -- when the electricity came back on.  Yay for electric power.