All Things Profane and Sacred

Pretty scary wind storm out here last Thursday. Gusts of 100 mph. Trees down, flooding, a few days without electric, roads impassable. We heard a gigantic crash which turned out to be most of a tree taking off part of our house and smooshing our power line. I was surprised (pleasantly) to have electric back on by Saturday night-it gets cold out on the mountain. Luckily, I got lamp oil and wicks last time it stormed, so we were somewhat prepared, although we didn't think to pick up water (note to self: well won't pump water without electric), and didn't have more than a day's supply of wood (enough to dry out what we could scavenge from the blow downs).

I'd like to thank the oh so helpful radio fuckers who kept telling us that we could find out about closed roads, weather conditions and utility outages by simply going on the internet. Real friggen helpful, assholes.