We here at The Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse just thought a tree split apart in a high wind and came down, crashing into junipers and grazing the porch. Well, it did, but as it turns out we can say, as I did above: WE WERE DERECHO-ED!!!!

The view in the last post showed the forest effect across the yard to the porch. The photo below highlights the “rip that tree apart” aspect of the wind.