Well, that wasn't so bad

[fenchurch]

Rather than open the fridge or heat canned soup on the stovetop, we decided to head out and drive until we found a restaurant with electricity (since the power outage was nowhere near as widespread as the big one last year). It turned out that everything over by Evergreen Hospital still had power... so we had a lovely dinner of Cajun Italian food (no, we've never figured out what that's supposed to mean, either) at a restaurant filled with other people who had the same idea!

By the time we got home, the power was back on (which is what we'd been hoping for). Judging by the time flashing on our alarm clocks, it had come back about five minutes before we walked in the door, so it was only out for about three hours total. Not too bad! (Oof! The news just reported that our power company still has 85,000 customers without power.)

The winds did manage to completely blow over the arbor type thingy on the side of our house, snapping off one of the climbing roses down at the base. This is mostly just an inconvenience, since we'd been planning to tear the thing down to replace it next spring, but it's also a pretty big mess that we'll have to work on this weekend.

This was taken from our neighbor's driveway:



Apparently, we're due for heavy rains tonight and another batch of windy weather (not quite as strong, but still packing a bit of a punch) sweeping through here tomorrow around Noon. So I could get a chance to use that Jiffy Pop popcorn, after all!

Comments

[rosiewook.livejournal.com]

Aww. It always looks so sad when something goes down before you plan it.

How much pizza will it cost to get a bunch of friends to come over to help clean it up? Because I know that you are not going near it. (In case you had any ideas.)

Please send the rain down here. We're not managing to get much out of this "storm."

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Oh, not much pizza at all. We'll start calling around some of our friends from church and have a crew out here without any trouble. And I was definitely using "we" meaning "Rackham" -- although I'll be good for support crew. Because you're right, there's absolutely no way I can do anything to help with it.

*Sending rainy thoughts your way-