Cleaning up after the Wind

Last Tuesday and Wednesday we had strong winds like Illinois did as about everywhere else in the Midwest.  All evening the lights flickered. By 9 pm it was like having a strobe light.  We just knew it was coming so we found flashlights and waited.  Sure enough - we lost power.  We could hear limbs hitting the roof and whole trees falling.  In the light of day (because the power was still off - 18 hours total) we surveyed the damage.  Five trees total: on the steps in front of the house, in back of the house, two nearer the lake, one behind the garage.  No damage I am happy to say.  On the lane from our house to the road there was a 12-15 inch diameter tree that had fallen.  Case had to chainsaw us out.  He loved it.  So today we cleaning up branches and chainsawing the trees for firewood.  It will take several days to finish it all.  That's OK.  We're retired.