December 6, 2007

• I'm alive

  Peaks in from the land of no power--100 mile hour gusts of wind, and 9 inches of snow melting due to 9 inches of rain in less then 12 hours.

  My 200 year old maple is smashed onto the ground.  My big eagle tree that was dead, but quite the place for eagles--had 7 of them on it at once is smashed down.

  My white van didn't get home until Wednesday.

  My dad in his infinite stupidity came out to see if we were okay during the middle of the wind storm, and got stranded in my house for 32 hours.

  

  Taken from my back step--the river was about 8 feet from it. 

  When I woke up Monday morning it was to no power--it didn't come back for 27 hours.  And the river...3x bigger then it was last year.  It made it under my sun room.

  But we knew what to expect from last time, and my dad was there to help us if we had to get kids out, so we rode it out..fortunately not literally.  And at 1 pm the tide went out and so did the river.

  

  Taken from my bedroom window aboutt 10 feet away from my house.  Turn the other direction in the same window and we had this;

  

  Taken from my sun room window

   

  Yeah that was the side that scared me, and to the right of the picture it began going under the sun room, and I would assume under the house.

  

  And as the day progressed it grew.

   

  

  Rob called in and took two hours of vacation so he could help me load up pictures and computer tower (again)  and then we just decided we'd hang in the house until the last minute.

  I figured I'd grab an hour of sleep before he went to work knowing I wouldn't be able to with my dad whom I dont' trust in the house.   And when I woke up.

  All the water was gone.

  GONE.

  Dad took Rob to work, and headed home.

  Only he couldn't get home.  And ended up at my house.  It was a long 27 hours.  I actually have to admit in the end because of some things I told him and because Rob was pulling a double because ALL roads leading to Clallam Bay were closed, and their were only two nurses to cover all shifts for the forseeable future dad ended up sleeping in his car.

  It wasn't something I wanted to do...but he offered and I didn't argue.  The fact that he did so willingly upped his trustability IMHO.

  He came back when it was day light and began sawing much of the wood that came down.  He was paying penance for some crap that went down on the weekend.  He was also restless and it was a good way to burn off steam.  He also since he's been a logger for all of his life can do it in a fraction of the time that Rob can.

   

  Anyhow so that was two of my days this week. 

  The power came on about 8 am Tuesday.

  The roads cleared about 2 pm Tuesday

  My white van made it home about 2 pm Wednesday.

  And the DSL was finally repaired about an hour ago.

  Its been...intresting.

  We're mourning our big maple.  It was such a delicious tree.  I have pictures somewhere, but don't have the time to find them--of it up I mean.  There's a good chance however its worth quite a bit of money as it has figure in it, or birds eye, or fiddle-back-maple.  Whichever turn helps you out.  So if it is the sting of losing it will help a bit.

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