Wow It took 13 hours but I finally have electricity again!



At around five this morning, one doozy of a storm hit. It started out with a little rain and next thing I knew...Bang! Hail and wind. According to the weather service, we had wind in excess of 86 mph. Most of the trees in my neighborhood are down, I lost two from my yard alone. A few were snapped in two, but the majority of them were ripped right out of the ground. (even pine trees) One of them came down in the 25 foot gap between my house and the neighbors and somehow, amazingly managed to miss both our houses.

I sat around, drank my coffee and watched. Sensible people probably would have retreated for their basements but I never have been accused of being sensible. My two younger cats were freaked out, but the oldest (Tucker) took the whole thing in stride. He's lived through Oregon floods and Colorado twisters over the past eleven years, so his big reaction when the huge birch tree came down, was too calmly walk over and sit down under the table. Thats my boy. ^_-

Once it finally blew over by around 7:30, the power was down all over. I went up to work and made sure everything was intact and there were chunks of tin-roofing all over our street, but no broken windows thank goodness. Of course also no power. -_-'
So no point in hanging around, I headed back home, swapped my dress shirt and high heels for some old cowboy boots and a T-shirt and started cleaning up dead tree carnage! When I went over too check on the Evil Twin's grandparents I found out that not only had a tree come down on their house, but also that his grandfather had suffered a stroke that morning and had to be rushed to the hospital. One freaking thing after another! Which reminds me that I need to call and check in on his little sister. *sigh* Ah, well at least I have power and AC again. ^^

Say hello to Mr. Kill, my giant gelatinous landmass of a cat.

How friggin hot is my desktop?

...and yes BT fans, its going to be a series. ^^