Thar She Blows!

Yesterday was the wind storm of the year! It took me an extra 45 minutes to commute home and I got to see some pretty blue lightning flash. It's weird to drive along the interstate and see sections of the city I'm driving through be totally black due to power outtages.

When I got home I was zonked and we had power up until about 8:00 pm. We had just sat down to dinner and started eating when the lights were flickering so I lit the oil lamps. Once we finished eating, as if on cue, the lights went out. Then we decided to go to bed, although it was only 9 o'clock because I was tired and it was very dark (even with the oil lamps).

Then the lights went back on around 10 o'clock, but we didn't get back up since it was too comfortable in bed and we had been joined by some cats by then. The wind did blow hard and the rattling windows kept waking me up from time to time.

I'll be venturing out today to run errands, so I'll see what kind of damage has happened within the community.

Update
The kitties were pretty oblivious to the storm. When the lights went out they seemed to wonder why their hairless apes were stumbling around. To them the lighting was adequate!

When I went into town nothing seemed out of place, but Pooky had stories about people snapping up generators at Home Depot within hours. Just outside of our area the town of Pe Ell (pronounced like the letters "p" and "l") had all of its power poles and telephones lines knocked down so there are many people without electricity. We are some of the luckiest people in the state with our power being off briefly.