Hi,
I'm sure many of you have heard about our current weather catastrophe. In the Pacific Northwest we're used to rain, wind, and yucky winter weather, but this time we were really slammed. I-5, the backbone of commerce for the west coast, has been closed for almost a week and they're saying it might not open for quite a while. The big trucks are having to take a huge detour through the mountains. And guess what? They're having avalanches in the pass. Pretty nasty, huh?
I suppose the moral to this story is that you never know what's going to happen. Lots of folks went to bed fat and happy and the next thing they knew they were being picked up by a helicopter. Believe me, that's not my idea of reliable transportation. In the past week we've had flooding, downed trees, mudslides, avalanches, sinkholes, a snowstorm and collapsed roads. About the only thing we were spared was a plague of locust.
By luck of topography (something about being near Mt. Rainier) we missed the brunt of the storm. We had lots of rain and wind, but no real damage. So I have my fingers crossed for the remainder of the winter. Last Christmas we were without power for a full week. That's when my hubby went out and bought a generator. We are now prepared for almost any occasion - maybe not Big Foot and/or the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, but just about everything else.
So, enjoy every day. You just never know.
Ann
www.ann-defee.com
Goin' Down to Georgia - Harlequin American Romance, March 2008
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I live on the Southern Oregon Coast and all we got was a lot of wind and rain . Not a lot of damage. Just a few limbs here and there.
My sister got the snow part of that storm. I can't imagine the trucks from I-5 trying to navigate through the mountains. Ugh.
Christmas without power... how horrible!!!!!
I remember once in Canada we did not have power for a whole week in January, and some we less lucky and spent the New Year's under the dark!
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