Wait? Don't we have a fence?

Yep, it happened, just as I suspected.  Despite our precaution of replacing broken posts so that our fence would not fall if there was a strong wind, it fell!  Last night started with me putting the kids to bed and then standing in the office talking to James.  The wind started up and it was clearly strong.  I looked out and discovered one of our cypress trees were about to come out of the ground.  Thankfully it is still attached to a stake so James was able to get a mallet and resecure it into the ground.  Neither of us thought to check the fence since we just had those posts replaced 6 weeks ago and all the rest were secure.

A little while later my neighbor called us to let us know that our dog was at her front door.  I figured she ran out of the gate when JJ was putting out trashcans.  At this point it was really raining so I sent Jay with a leash and umbrella to get the dog.  A second later he came in yelling, "Mom!  It's an emergency!"  We have told the kids that if it is a true emergency and they need our attention immediately to tell us that.  They never have before.  Instinctively I knew what the emergency was before JJ even telling me.

James and I went out and two of our panels were laying outside of our yard, nail side up.  The post between the two had snapped in half.  We flipped them over into our yard so no one would get hurt and checked the other posts to discover that several are now broken in the ground.

I was a bit concerned that our trash cans would not be where JJ left them last night and that we could be missing shingles off our roof as this has happened to several neighbors.  Thankfully this morning there was no more damage to our property.

It is all good.  I am not that upset about the fence as I expected it to happen even though we hoped it wouldn't by being proactive.  If anything upsets me it is that we WERE proactive and the fence still broke.  I guess you can't win them all.

The best part is we got A LOT of rain last night.  It rained all night long and more rain is expected for today.  What a difference a year makes since last summer we didn't see a drop of rain for 3 or 4 months and the temps did not get below 100 for 60 or 70 days I think.  That could be off but it was a LONG HOT summer that dried up all the fingers of the lake around us.

Definitely won't be complaining about rain.