A Mighty Wind

[J Peters]

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310281/)

So, I first noticed it was getting a bit breezy on Saturday, when I was
driving home, and felt the car drifting a bit. The big trucks were
feeling it, too.

Then, Sunday, it was 4 hours of high winds. There was a training
session planned, which was adjusted, so that I dropped off the gang 5
miles away. They came back with the wind at their backs.

I put in the roast for Sunday dinner a bit before the scheduled start of
training, so it'd be done soon after the workout was over. But when I
got back from dropping them off, the power was out. So, I put the roast
on the grill and turned it every ten minutes or so. It turned out
pretty good, actually.

The guys ended up calling me to come pick them up. They'd encountered
some down limbs and such on the bikeway, and had had enough. I had fun
finding my way across town, actually, due to debris in the road, etc. I
saw one tree resting on power lines, and one tree down on a garage.

When we got back from that little trip, the power was on.

So, we had dinner and watched football. But the power went back out for
good in the third quarter, and didn't come back on until yesterday. It
was 2 full days with no power.

It's my good fortune that my workplace didn't lose power, so I got to
spend my days with lights and refrigeration and other conveniences.

I did end up picking up a nail in my tire somewhere in the debris.
Thanks to yet another modern invention, my car let me know about it, via
the tire pressure indicator on the dashboard. So I spotted it and got
it fixed before the tire failed completely on the highway. Pria rock!

They say this is the worst power outage we've had in the area since the
blizzard of '78. I'm sure it's minor compared to what Ike has done to
Houston. After all, we got zero precipitation, just Ike's last gasps of
high wind.

All will be restored to wellness soon.

Gemini

[Diana]

In article <%ajAk.462$***@flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com>,
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Post by J Peters
They say this is the worst power outage we've had in the area since the
blizzard of '78. I'm sure it's minor compared to what Ike has done to
Houston. After all, we got zero precipitation, just Ike's last gasps of
high wind.
All will be restored to wellness soon.
Gemini

A bit of an inconvenience, for sure. I also feel very lucky not to have
had the life disrupting weather experiences that many have had
elsewhere. In north central Florida we have been lucky so far this
year. Three years ago two of the storms inflicted significant power
outages here, some folks having to endure three weeks of it even in the
interior part of the state, but again luck was with us in our
neighborhood, and we had no more that two days without power. The worst
thing was not knowing how long it would be. Weather is so much more of
a factor the past few years, and my guess is this will worsen as the
effects of global warming increase. The past eight years of a
government who doesn't care/doesn't "believe in" the problem of global
warming has saddened me greatly. There is so much that could have been
done to help that becomes less effective with every passing year. God
help us if we somehow end up with that dingbat Sarah Palin in the White
House.

I guess your comment about all being restored to wellness triggered
that. Of course it will, for you and for me, in the short term--and I'm
g;ad and grateful. But the long term view is pretty scary.

Diana