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Dude, it's CRAZY out there!
Jan. 30th, 2008 07:54 pm"They" started warning us sometime yesterday about a high wind warning with a front that was supposed to be coming through around 4 this morning. Sure enough, right at 4, I heard it kicking up like crazy. It was gusting so hard that I actually felt our sturdy brick house shift a bit. It was gusting hard enough that our bedroom door kept opening and closing a bit, and I was having trouble sleeping because I was keeping an ear out for TRex, in case the racket woke her up (it didn't). Drifted back off about 5... As we were getting ready for the day, I looked out the window and saw the pine in the neighbor's easement bowing big-time. Thought to myself, "That thing ain't gonna last the day.
I was right. Sometime between 10:45 and 10:50 this morning, it fell, completely blocking the street and mostly blocking our driveway. (I could have gotten out if I'd really really needed to but it would have involved making use of hour high ground clearance and AWD.) The city came and pushed it out of the street within an hour, but they put it smack across another neighbor's driveway - I THINK she was at work so she'll be able to park on the street (or down the block at her mom's house) but if she had been home, she would have been seriously trapped. As of last time I looked out the window, they hadn't done a thing about actually removing it.
Other fun notes:
When we went to the grocery store this morning, one of the traffic lights had fallen - it had probably been a while, because there was no evidence of it anywhere. Another was attached by one wire, kind of spinning in the wind. As I was attempting to get TRex out of the cart (my angle is all wrong, she's too tall, her boots get stuck and I bloody give up), the wind caught her and started moving the whole operation - because, unbeknownst to me, I was standing on a sheet of ice. Yay. As I was trying to get into the car after I'd put the cart away, the wind caught me and I slid... because, again, I was on a sheet of ice. There was no way I was going to be able to stop myself, except I grabbed on to the rearview mirror as I went by. When we went by the same traffic light after picking M up at the train this evening and the light that had been hanging by a thread was gone, too.
I was right. Sometime between 10:45 and 10:50 this morning, it fell, completely blocking the street and mostly blocking our driveway. (I could have gotten out if I'd really really needed to but it would have involved making use of hour high ground clearance and AWD.) The city came and pushed it out of the street within an hour, but they put it smack across another neighbor's driveway - I THINK she was at work so she'll be able to park on the street (or down the block at her mom's house) but if she had been home, she would have been seriously trapped. As of last time I looked out the window, they hadn't done a thing about actually removing it.
Other fun notes:
When we went to the grocery store this morning, one of the traffic lights had fallen - it had probably been a while, because there was no evidence of it anywhere. Another was attached by one wire, kind of spinning in the wind. As I was attempting to get TRex out of the cart (my angle is all wrong, she's too tall, her boots get stuck and I bloody give up), the wind caught her and started moving the whole operation - because, unbeknownst to me, I was standing on a sheet of ice. Yay. As I was trying to get into the car after I'd put the cart away, the wind caught me and I slid... because, again, I was on a sheet of ice. There was no way I was going to be able to stop myself, except I grabbed on to the rearview mirror as I went by. When we went by the same traffic light after picking M up at the train this evening and the light that had been hanging by a thread was gone, too.
