Big Storm in the Night

I woke up at 12:20AM with a big thunderstorm and a lot of wind blowing. I checked the weather on my Ipod (always on the shelves beside the bed) and saw that there was a severe storm warning  and wind was gusting up to 115 km/hr.   The wind was sounding like a train going through and the lightning was pretty wild and thunder very loud for a while.  I was hoping it was not developing into a tornado after our experience traveling by Kansas city in May.  I was checking to see if there were any warnings for tornadoes and wondered if we would have to go down the basement when the storm was sounding quite wild.  The power went off for about 7 minutes  and by the time it came back on the storm was starting to subside.  By about 12:45 it was moving past our area.   This morning we saw that the BBQ cover was blown off and one chair tipped over but nothing  major.  There are a lot of twigs blown around but no bigger branches broken on trees like we heard about in some areas.  We were thankful the storm blew through in a short time with no big problem.

UPDATE:  We have been hearing and seeing more about the damage from the storm.  Tree branches down caused power outages in many places.  Elaine took some pictures of a tree that is down and across the street just a few houses down the block from us.