The recent storm that struck the metro on Aug 18 has left many with quite a mess to clean up. The start of the following school day was filled with numerous amounts of stories of the aftermath. Stories told ranged from students being left in the dark all night long to what was the biggest size of hail someone had in their yard.
“I lost power from 8:30pm last night to 2:30pm (the following day),” said Paige Branson ‘13. “ We had to call the fire department because of a power wire that was on fire. But, anyway I had to take a shower in the dark and all that good stuff.”
During the time of the storm many students were present at numerous different places. Whether it happened to be the roaring winds, loud thunder, or hard hail the storm definitely could be heard wherever they happened to be.
“I was at my house during the storm,” said Holly Jensen ‘14. “ I could hear the hail on the roof.”
No matter where one was during the storm, the aftermath seemed the toughest to deal with because some damages were unknown.
“We do not know about the roof of our house but our porch roof has a bunch of holes in it,” said Jensen.
From street to street if one was to go around the town afterwards, more damages would be a more common sight then others. Broken windows, fallen branches and trees around houses were a common sight. The most common sight at school, however, happened to be damages to the cars.
“The back window (of my car) was completely out due to the hail,” said Ashley Vanderpool ‘12. “The trimming on the front window came out and on the driver’s side, the headlight is all busted out, and the passenger headlight has a few cracks in it.”
Many damages due to the storm can be fixed, but the night of this storm will not be forgotten for many students and teachers at AL.
(Story by Lauren Myers. Pictures courtesy of Hayley Hochstetler. Graphic by Brian Williams.)
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