Coming windstorm

[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