I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees...
Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: What was the old Washington Irving thing about thunder and bowling?
A quick post while we still have electricity to run this machine...
We've been without power for the better part of today into last night. If any of you left a message on our machine in the last 24 hours, it's gone. Our battery backup wasn't up to the task on that one.

The windstorm is apparently the worst to strike the Puget Sound region in 50 years, though it's nothing beside the storms we were used to back in Missouri and Nebraska. It took part of the corrugated roofing off our back porch last night. (not a pleasant noise to wake up to) The real fear isn't the roof of the porch, though, I can fix that. Unfortunately, the humous layer is relatively thin in Washington; meaning that those tall beautiful trees we're surrounded by have a relatively shallow rootsystem holding them upright. Last windstorm - which was susbstantially milder than this - saw a tree down that completely blocked the road in front of my house from the forested lot across the street. I had to go out and clear it with a handsaw and that wasn't much fun.

They really are beautiful trees... when they don't fall on your house, anyway.

Just keeping everyone posted... I'll sign off now, the power's fluctuating again.

Scott & Kristin