Auntie Em, Auntie Em!
Aug. 30th, 2015 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fufarawLost power around noon yesterday--all up and down the I-5 corridor from Everett to Blaine. Not one sweep, it was dozens--scores--of downed trees and power lines. Ours was a tree down on the power line and three blown transformers (no mistaking that sound) one street over. They routed traffic down our tiny lane-and-a-half street the rest of the day, evening, and into the night.
After getting out the camping stove and multiple battery-powered lanterns, picking up the major debris from the blown-over baker's rack and plant stand on the porch--the mended Buddha wasn't dented, in fact, he dented the deck board where his head landed--the glass insert for one of the candleholders broke, the rest, along with the loose-laid ceramic tiles, were fine. The impatiens stand blew off the porch and landed on the steps, the glazed flowerpot shattered, but the plant is fine and will be repotted. We had to take down the butterfly house flag--the hem is reduced to tatters and will need to be replaced.
We helped next-door stand up their knocked-over plant pots--one holding a tomato plant was broken irreparably, but the rest were recoverable, and OH borrowed a ladder from a second neighbor to reattach the downspout for another neighbor, before donning his OMG SO BRIGHT reflective jacket and directing traffic for about four hours.
I could probably adjust to a cabin in the woods with kerosene lamps and hand-pumped water and wood-burning cookstoves and heat, but I reeeeeally like phone, internet, and power. Which came back on around 5AM. HIIIIIII!!!! I MISSED YOU!!!!!
After getting out the camping stove and multiple battery-powered lanterns, picking up the major debris from the blown-over baker's rack and plant stand on the porch--the mended Buddha wasn't dented, in fact, he dented the deck board where his head landed--the glass insert for one of the candleholders broke, the rest, along with the loose-laid ceramic tiles, were fine. The impatiens stand blew off the porch and landed on the steps, the glazed flowerpot shattered, but the plant is fine and will be repotted. We had to take down the butterfly house flag--the hem is reduced to tatters and will need to be replaced.
We helped next-door stand up their knocked-over plant pots--one holding a tomato plant was broken irreparably, but the rest were recoverable, and OH borrowed a ladder from a second neighbor to reattach the downspout for another neighbor, before donning his OMG SO BRIGHT reflective jacket and directing traffic for about four hours.
I could probably adjust to a cabin in the woods with kerosene lamps and hand-pumped water and wood-burning cookstoves and heat, but I reeeeeally like phone, internet, and power. Which came back on around 5AM. HIIIIIII!!!! I MISSED YOU!!!!!
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Date: 2015-08-31 03:37 am (UTC)