We had quite the ice storm lately. It started Saturday night a little, but really hit hard on Sunday night. We lost most of our trees (if not all). You can't even get to our front door because of the ice on the trees and grass. We lost power (with most everyone else) from 11pm Sunday night until almost 11am. We were very lucky to get our power back. Several families do not have power (153,000 people in the Tulsa Metro area - that does not include cities like Owasso). I made it to church on time and soon found out we were the only church with power and the Red Cross was going to take us over as a designated Shelter. We called anyone available to come help and started to get things set up. We began cooking meals and shopping for more food. Shortly after we got lunch ready we lost power and were closed down. 
We lost our big STRONG oak tree on the side of our house by our dining room. The top came down and ended right at our window.
This is our backyard view now. We lost most all of our trees which used to line the fence and give us a nice Green view instead of a view of the
cul de sac.
This is the one tree that was in the middle of our backyard. We couldn't sleep at all last night. We could hear the branches breaking and falling off all night long. Luckily we didn't lose our fence.
This is the entrance to our housing development right next to our house. Trees are bent and blocking most all streets and several streets are closed.
These pictures are only of our home and taken from our home, there is damage like this ALL OVER the area. We are just one small sample. We are blessed that our home is safe and we have power! We had two other families come stay with us because they had no power. It was a very interesting day. School was cancelled today and will be cancelled tomorrow as well. Hopefully we are through the worst and things will melt away soon. We still hear branches crash every now and then. We will be lucky to have any trees that survive. Go figure we purposely chose this neighborhood because of all the nice big fully developed trees. Oh well=)
We lost our big STRONG oak tree on the side of our house by our dining room. The top came down and ended right at our window.
This is our backyard view now. We lost most all of our trees which used to line the fence and give us a nice Green view instead of a view of the cul de sac.
This is the one tree that was in the middle of our backyard. We couldn't sleep at all last night. We could hear the branches breaking and falling off all night long. Luckily we didn't lose our fence.
This is the entrance to our housing development right next to our house. Trees are bent and blocking most all streets and several streets are closed. 
These pictures are only of our home and taken from our home, there is damage like this ALL OVER the area. We are just one small sample. We are blessed that our home is safe and we have power! We had two other families come stay with us because they had no power. It was a very interesting day. School was cancelled today and will be cancelled tomorrow as well. Hopefully we are through the worst and things will melt away soon. We still hear branches crash every now and then. We will be lucky to have any trees that survive. Go figure we purposely chose this neighborhood because of all the nice big fully developed trees. Oh well=) 
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