Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Our Wild December

Part of the reason I was MIA in December was the crazy weather we had. First a snow storm, snowing us in for three days (that may actually have been the end of November, now that I think about it) and then a wind storm that broke branches off trees and knocked out power for 5 days.

Seattle is rife with very large evergreen trees, so a windstorm is a serious thing. Our house sits in a bowl shaped area surrounded by 40 and 50 foot trees. In fact, our landlord called us the night that the storm was supposed to start and cautioned us not to sleep upstairs (where the bedrooms are) because we could so easily have a branch come through the roof. Yikes!!! You can imagine how much fun it was for all four of us to sleep together, without power, on the futon downstairs. Fortunately my parents let us huddle at their house for a couple of nights so we could stay warm!!

Below are a few pictures of the fun times:

First the snow....





And then the wind... note the very tall trees! The one that fell just missed the deck.
Lots of clean up to do...

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