So the storm was a good one... bad enough to be worth being
worried, but the damage was limited... we (the Bay Area) survived... Streets flooded... There were blackouts... a
Safeway parking lot flooded and turned into a kayak playground... streets and
roads were closed... traffic was a nightmare... (but not as bad as it could
have been... most people stayed home...) trees fell... In the Sierra the snow level
dropped, and chains were required on I-80, and Hwys 50 and 88... Creeks rose... this morning they are still
rising, still threatening...
At our house, our outdoor (feral) cats are wet, pissed off
and miserable... The power blipped off a
couple of times... but was only off a short time, and I never fired up the
generator or had to resort to pre-ground coffee... the wind knocked the hat off
the lighted Christmas penguin... Walking the dogs around the block, I got my
feet thoroughly wet... my socks were soaked and squishy... (Oh, the
inhumanity?)
The highlight of the storm came at 8:30pm... in the dark,
with the rain still falling but subsiding... we got our mail... delivered by a
mailman wearing a head lamp... The Post Office, unofficial creed is "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor
gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed
rounds"... Apparently they are trying to prove it... They were not stayed...
Across the bay at the farm a couple of trees came down and
hit the railroad's car house, punching a couple of holes in the roof, but
happily not damaging the structure or any of the artifacts.
This morning San Francisco Bay is glassy smooth... and
covered with floating debris... driftwood, tree limbs and other stuff washed
down creeks...
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