Coming windstorm

[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

[Susan126]

Yes they were screaming. But I think more because it was "fun" LOL KIDS!
Sad news . . . my beautiful plum tree succumbed to the wind. Yesterday when hubby pulled into the drive he came through the door and yelled for me to come outside. Our plum tree on the side of the house was lying on it's side with it's roots sticking out. I loved that tree. Our ground here on top of the hill in Bonnye Lake is like concrete. There is maybe 1 or 1 1/2 feet of top soil and then you hit this solid rock concrete. Poor thing. It's roots tried to go down deep to anchor itself but it just could not penetrate the rock. Instead it spread out across the top 1 feet of soil in my yard. It covered quite an area too. Also it still had all it's leaves. I think if the leaves would have fallen off before the wind storm it would have survived. I am so sad. We are goint to the Prairie Ridge Transfer Station (dump) this morning to recycle our tree.

My tree was not the only plum tree to concede to the wind. Two others also did in my neighborhood.

[East Hill]

The neighbour's willow tree wound up flat across the lawn extending into the road. They had to cut it up and remove it. I was shocked--the cottonwoods did the usual shedding of large branches, but nothing more--and here the poor willow bit the dust. It's been there longer than I've been on the Hill, too (and I've been here since 1987).

East Hill