Lovely weather we are having today. Looks like it's going to be a white Christmas much to my dismay. This morning we started with thunderstorms, pouring rain, sleet and maybe some hail. Now we have snow coming down and really strong winds. The local news website says 74,000 are without power right now with an estimated restoration time of midnight Christmas Eve night. My parents lost their power for about an hour but have since gotten it back. We are just praying we don't loose ours. Thankfully most of our power lines are underground so unless they loose a transformer (which is entirely possible) we should be okay. Winds are between 20-30 mph with frequent gusts up to 40 mph. Trees are down all over the place. Snow is suppose to start coming down harder at any time now and continue until morning with up to 5 inches by us, more in some areas. Here's a few pictures from our back deck.
This one was taken earlier and shows our neighbors trampoline standing straight up thanks to a gust of wind. Amazingly it hasn't flipped over yet. Wind must have planted it pretty good into the ground when it set it upright.
And then about an hour later I took these. Visiabilities way down already and you can see the wind gusting. Notice in the first one ou can't even see the trampoline through the blowing snow.
Don't you wish you were here??
