Checking in from a wild and wooly Grays Harbor County......
I echo what Whiteman's reported........it was crazy here.....
We lost 4 ornamental cherry trees, wind just pulled them out by the roots.
Michael caught two more before they pulled out and tied them off with
come alongs to the fence posts..... We lost probably an 80 foot fir at the
driveway.....there are so many huge small tree size branches down,
I think we'll be having a community weinie roast soon, to get rid of them.
The roads around here are scary and as we're new to the area do not
know the ways around the blocked roads - but all the major roads in and out
of here were blocked yesterday....we were being held prisoner in our county LOL
not that we wanted to go anywhere in that weather.....we found a restaurant up
in Elma that was open (Rusty Tractor) and I think the whole town of Montesano
was there eating. They said if delivery trucks couldn't get thru by today, they
wouldn't be feeding anyone as they were about out of supplies.
Power came on during the night sometime so we've lights, heat and water, again, and
can flush the toilets (a vastly underated commodity to daily living
)
Santa is going to have a BIG wish list this year and it's all going to do with generators,
more battery powered lamps and some sort of emergency lighting for the barn, something
to heat food on.
Kids are all safe and sound.....our big guy Graffix sometimes gets antsy in nasty weather
and he stayed as calm as can be......think he was saying silent prayers to his Dad for
getting he and his little people bedrooms built since we came here.
We got a phone call at 6PM last night that our old home and business was going to get
flooded again at 4 AM this morning, which was when they expected the Puyallup to flood
at 4 feet more than last years flood that wiped us out....It did not come to pass, thank God.
The flooded areas, here in Grays Harbor, are horrible.......I told Cheyenne, when I talked with
her yesterday,that we took our camera with us when we went out, to eat, but seeing all the
flooded area, not far, from us was way to emotional....I couldn't take the photos, I just cried....
way to close to the heart and memory.
The difference here is this is, that this is mostly farm land.....I don't know much about the history
of the area, but I think any homes that were in these floodways have been removed and the rivers
flood, mostly just into fields and pasture land.......no people are being endangered, in the areas we saw anyway.
I do not know what we've done to annoy Mother Nature but she has had the Pacific NW in her
sight for a couple years now......this just isn't our kind of weather....especially not two years in a row.
I'm glad to read people and critters are safe........another bullet close but avoided.....Take care!
