When Nature ATTACKS!!!!

Monday we had this crazy windstorm here at Camp... gusts up around 70 mph and Tom Phillips was scared half to death. Nonetheless the grounds got beat up pretty bad and we lost probably at least 50 big trees, the tent was ripped to shreds, the volleyball perimeter net posts were bent clean over, ping pong tables and electrical boxes were being thrown all over the campground, and powerlines were all but yanked apart. We wish that pictures could do justice to what happened but unfortunately they just don't. Here's some that show a bit of what happened but really it was a natural disaster to say the least.

At least 5 big trees fell right around Cabin 5, the one actually being held up by it on the backside, and the chapel road there has 3 trees lying across it with a massive oak falling right behind Cabin 6B... the rootstem being entirely pulled up leaving a 15 foot diameter crater behind.

The tent actually got ripped apart at the seams... like where the seams are sewn together, not where we assemble it. So now it lies in tattered pieces in the middle of the camp ground. We aren't exactly sure how to fix this thing, it looks like we might have to get a new one or try to get somebody to sew it all back together but it's really a mess.

This one blew us away. The tree that had the anchor to the posts at the Leap of Faith was actually ripped right out of the ground and was hanging by the cable it was hooked up to. When driving into camp you are now welcomed by a huge pine tree suspended in mid air by a cable.

This is down by the barn road... which was blocked by a slew of trees that had been uprooted and blocked the road. One of our bible school students parked his car on the barn road and it was trapped between trees that fell near each barn entrance.

Another amazing sight is now to drive past the volleyball court, where the poles holding the perimeter net were literally bent over by the wind catching the net.

As aforementioned, these pictures don't do justice to the carnage that took place on Monday. This is a picture some trees on the lake road, which was blocked from the first turn down. After clearing all of the trees off of it yesterday we realized that the canoes had actually been lifted off of the canoe rack and flew all through the woods and were scattered about all the way to the other side of the water slide. These trees here were snapped in half about 15 feet up the trunk and the top halves were just slung everywhere.