[click image]It mostly just rained here today, with a couple of darn serious downpours, and very little wind until right after I mentioned the lack of it somewhere. Since then, of course, it's been blowing gale force in gusts that just aren't far enough apart. I can't believe we've still got power, that there hasn't been a tree limb taking out a line here yet... but we've had some doozy storms over the past few winters and maybe that's cleared them enough. It's much worse when it has been raining for months, when the ground is thoroughly soaked and THEN we get this kind of wind. That's always the prescription for whole trees to get blown over... especially the ones who for millennia were deep within the redwood forest but now are at the edge of it.
Humons. Pfeh.
Agent BB2 at least has lived to tell about another storm, and even picked up some leaves to scan on high resolution for me so I can zoom and zoom and zoom and zoom to my heart's content. The upside of humons is they do nice things like that.
It's the rest of it I can't quite fathom.
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ReplyDeleteThat storm's reach is up the BC coast. I worry if one of our tall trees will fall when whenever we get these powerful gusts.
ReplyDeleteLove these leaves! Scans are fun, aren't they?
Yep, just a little warm up for Winter, sure glad I hired some one this year to clean up the leaves and limbs. What a mess the yard is.
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Naturally, about a half hour after I brought this up the electricity went OUT... ruined my whole reading myself to sleep gig.
ReplyDeleteThe storm wasn't too bad down here in inland Mendocino - about 2 1/2 inches of rain, wind stayed under 20.
ReplyDeleteNot as bad as the flood of 86. Or was it 87? Anyway back then I had an aluminum canoe, a portable radio and a 12 pack, and I was jamming down the streets with it.
ReplyDeleteThis time, it just "looked like" I had 100 people party out in my back yard leaving bottles, plants, and sticks and leaves everywhere. All the umbrella's were knocked over, or ripped up. Really, it's the thought that hit my mind when I peeked out in the morning. Damn what a party mother nature had last night.
~phil