Tornado and Fall

On Tuesday Oct 7 at 10:40 P, I awoke during a thunderstorm to hear the sound of a freight train near my home. It turned out to be a  EF-2 tornado which devastated parts of Southern West Virginia (Click here for Newspaper article). My home and all the bulidings on the farm  were spared but hundreds of trees including the entire fruit orchard were blown over and destroyed. We lost power for 24 hours and were temporarily blocked in by the damage. We are normally sheltered from this type of storm having only seven confirmed tornados in this county since 1950.
       We were blessed to have so little damage to life and property. During the tornado, I only had time to say uh ohh and to pray and I am thankful to the Lord that we were spared. It will take months and maybe  years to clean up, but I do understand how much worse it could have been. 
Below are some pictures of damage, but also of awesome fall colors of West Virginia 

Trees all around the barn fell, but only a sweet cherry tree fell against it but caused no damage.
 This is less than a 1000 feet from my home 

A Red Heart Cherry fell on the barn. This is after I cleared most of it off and saw there was almost no damage

Surveying damage after several hours of chainsaw work.
Their may be months or years of work here 

Here, trees didn't fall or break, but were violently twisted in two

Early Fall color at Grandview

Fall at Home