November 19, 2006

rAzYy! That is all I can say!! We have a storm such as I have not seen since the Oregon Coast. We have been getting phone calls from people on phones and cell phones about power lines being down across roadways, me being on 911 and BC Hydro when we had phone/power to report to them from the people who could get ahold of me but not 911, trees on fire, roofs blowing off barns and houses. THAT is before the bad winds hit us. The guys have been planning for the Grey Cup game all week and the power just went out here 15 minutes before the game. Then the black clouds rolled in and pummeled us with sleet/rain/snow stuff and all of it was going horizontally. The cows went running for the shelter of the trees. The chickens were lucky they were not let out today as they would have ended up in Alberta. We now have no phone, no power, but we do have wind up radios where they are trying to get the game on the radio. The woodstove is going, so I can cook mushroom and wild rice soup again. I actually bought bread at Costco the other day, so I do not have to bake any on the woodstove, though I have done it before. The pictures do not show the justice of the trees bending over. It also looks like snow in the pictures, but it is sideways flying sleet stuff. Most of the trees are also almost bending in half. The wind is whistling though the windows and doors. We have had the power out more in the last week than we have had in the last 5 years. The kids are already driving me crazy and trying to play football with a fuzzy football, but we did try to toss the kids outdoors for a few minutes as pictured above, until they decided it was not any fun. I went outside to take these pictures and it indeed hurt. So it will be reading time by lamplight for me tonight.  Hey.. "Kid" just dialed in the BC Lions/Montreal Grey Cup game on the wind up radio, so they are all intent upon it now. It will do them good to listen to the radio instead of watching TV anyway. Needless to say, we did nothing today.