Power is back on here...

[Truckman]

Tuesday afternoon i was in my office and noticed it starting to get dark...I could see the leaves starting to rustle on the trees across the street...Five minutes later I could see absolutely nothing across the two lane street in front of my house...Rain and tree limbs were blowing straight sideways from north to south...In ten minutes the sun was out and all was calm, but the power was off...It came back on a few minutes ago...

A tornado had touched down about a quarter mile from my house...I walked up there this morning to look, and a large oak tree had blown across the street and landed on some power lines...Lots of downed trees and damaged houses here too...I only lost a tree limb...Elsewhere some workers were caught in a house under construction...It collapsed; seven were hospitalized and two died...RIP to some guys just trying to finish a job......Ben

[Sandman]

Wowzers.. glad that you are ok..

[Truckman]

Wowzers.. glad that you are ok..

That's two of us then......Ben

[Truckman]

Here's some pics of the damage from my morning walk......Ben

[Dave Grubb]

Wow----I echo Sandy's sentiments

My daughter is in Tuscany on a long hike with mostly good weather while Reggio Emilia the state just to the north of Tuscany has terrible floods. Her daughter and SIL who live in Guam have been cut off since early yesterday as a typhon hit with 125 knot winds. We had a text yesterday morning saying they were OK---only water blowing in under the sliding door---and their power was out.

[Truckman]

That makes me glad I'm not in Guam, Dave...My power came back on yesterday evening...I left my freezer shut, so nothing lost there......Ben

[Mike]

Dang Ben! That was too close! Glad it decided to skip your house.

[Truckman]

Dang Ben! That was too close! Glad it decided to skip your house.

Big winds fear me......Ben

[UTAH]

Excellent pics, Ben. The deaths and damage are unfortunate - but the performance of workers is admirable.

Hunter

[Kevin]

Big winds know who is windier, I think you mean...

Glad you are OK. I've been through one twister and watching the sky turn color into what looked to me like bruise on the fourth day was scary in and of itself. It carried such a sense of wrongness and menace, I just wanted to find a shelter.

[Truckman]

Big winds know who is windier, I think you mean...

Well, that too......Ben

[Sandman]

On a lighter note.. 10 years ago we were hit by a Derecho (like a tornado but not one).. no one was hurt.. totaled the car, put a tree limb through the camper roof and knocked out the power.. the power company guys showed up in less than an hour and informed us that the power would be out for at least four daze.. so I load up all of the gas cans (in the F-350) and head off to find an open gas station.. (5 miles away, looks like nothing happend).. I return with 25 gallons of generator gas and start getting the kitchen TV working on antenna, power strip for neighbor cell phones.. and settling in for life under siege. When alarms go off, the reset the clock alarm on the oven and microwave.. we have power back in less than four hours, not days..

Seems that we (x20 houses) are fed from the west.. the rest of the neighborhood is fed from the east and didn’t have power for four daze..

The 4Runner didn’t see a gas pump for months, I had 25 gallons of gas in cans to use..

Glad that everyone is ok..

[Dave Grubb]

All is calming down in Guam. Some power is back on. They had 14" of rain in 12 hours. They spent the entire storm duration mopping water up that was blowing through the sliding door.

[Dave Grubb]

I just checked on typhon Mawar----current wind speed is 165 Mph and it is headed toward Taiwan.

I have two typhons in my past, both in the Western Pacific. One aboard ship and one in the air. Both were memorable. On the plane, without warning, the coffee in my hand, sitting on the tray left the cup---as I watched. The coffee, still with the shape of the cup, hoovered about an inch above the cup before falling back in---I don't recall that it spilled a drop

The shipboard experience was truly not one to be repeated in polite company

[Truckman]

The shipboard experience was truly not one to be repeated in polite company

At least you enjoyed a steel ship under you...My uncle rode out a memorable typhoon on a 102 foot wooden ship near Okinawa in 1945...Admiral Halsey came near court martial during that period for failure to secure all the ships in his fleet...I recall at least one destroyer going to the bottom of the Pacific at that time......Ben