I
was beginning to wonder
if I could create a
Wednesday page befiore
it was time for
Thursday's edition!
We were devastated last
night by unforeseen
hurricane-force winds.
We lost power and
internet connectivity. A
local hospital lost
power and cancelled all
surgery. Some people
will be without power
2-4 days, but our
neighborhood got power
back within three hours.
(Fortunately, all of our
lines are buried. Those
with overhead lines were
less fortunate.)
The storm was neither a
hurricane nor a tornado,
but had some of the
properties of each. Like
a hurricane, it included
90+ MPH straight-on
winds. Like a tornado,
we didn't really know it
was coming and it was
very selective about
where it caused damage.
There are neighborhoods
hit harder than ours,
but there are other
untouched neighborhoods
between the affected
ones. Crazy.
I didn't get out my
camera until after I
cleaned up our trees
(two fairly large trees
were completely
uprooted!), but the
pictures below show some
of the damage in the
houses immediately
adjacent to ours.
Amazingly, there were no
reports of serious
injuries.
