Coming windstorm

[Grog]

The wind speeds are starting to pick up here in Vancouver but I don't expect it to be as bad as last year, at least not today.

I live in Douglas-fir country and both my apartment and office are surrounded by 50-meter giants. They shed branches in the heavy winds, and two BIG ones fell across the street near my office last year. I was watching the others with a suspicious eye while sitting in my office, thinking that a few of them would crash directly on my building (really: a shed) if they were to fall.

Maybe I'll be working at the library today!

My dear partner also had a big tree crash on his car when he was in undergrad. Thankfully the car was in the parking lot and he was in class.

I just hope my sweetie does not decide to go for a ride after work. It's really a flying-branch festival during windstorms, I would not want him to be out on the road..... :S

[mimitabby]

I got home and found that i have power. What i didn't have was a garbage can. for some reason, we always have wind storms on garbage collection day; and our cans blow away.
Three of us on the block could not find our cans; but when one neighbor went all the way up the block and found HIS, i followed suit and found my own. What a relief!
and that is the extent so far of the damage I have suffered from this storm. A lot of people are without power though.

[kelownagirl]

My friends left at 2pm and their car broke down in a blizzard on the Coquihalla. They are getting it towed to Merritt and then somehow they still have to get to Vancouver.... Poor girls...

[teigyr]

It's strange because I am looking out over the airfield. I can only tell the wind gusts from when the planes go sideways when they take off and from the flags on the tugs outside. I go home at 8:30, it'll be interesting to see if there are branches or leaves down in the yard

[teigyr]

My friends left at 2pm and their car broke down in a blizzard on the Coquihalla. They are getting it towed to Merritt and then somehow they still have to get to Merritt. Poor girls...

Scary! And an adventure. But still...at least they got a tow truck. I hope they didn't have to be anywhere anytime soon and at least they are ok.

[boy in a kilt]

SGTiger called me at work to tell me the lights were out. Bought fire logs, ice (to keep stuff in fridge semi-cold) and beer.

We were just getting into being in the dark and dammit, the lights went on.

[Susan126]

Survived yesterday's windstorm. Got home and I still had power but we did lose power at school yesterday. We had 6th graders in the library checking out books at 1:50 and all the power went out. All our computers went down except for my library station. The kids of course started screaming. The teacher and I had to yell a bit to get their attention and them settled down. Our generator lights came on. It was chaotic at dismissal at 2:20! But we all survived. My middle school is old and we are building a new one. It's scheduled to open fall 2010 (but we know how that goes!). We have water leaking into our building after rain and constant power loss. Oh it will be so nice when our new building is finished!

Glad everyone else came through okay!

[mimitabby]

they started screaming? because it was dark? Oh, how pathetic.
I wonder how you can stand to deal with kids like this