Mother Nature is back!

The day started off pretty innocently. Woke up and got ready to go out and do the proper shop. Had a McBreakfast before starting to make sure I wasn’t making hunger buys. Then I got to it, had a nice walk around in the store. It was starting to get busy as I was finishing, so much so that I didn’t bother to go back and get the cookies I missed. Sorry sweet tooth, find another solution. I had everything stowed and cleaned by half nine and decided I would do a deeper clean of the kitchen. Feeling good about things I went to work on catching up on a missed week of MSC daily challenges. I only streamed one day’s worth and did most of the rest. I switched over and started catching up on Musings. I had a long, sad string in draft form that I wanted to give you. Make sure you check back a few days for the ones added in. I also was able to get everything posted for the Tent-Venture. The first twelve episodes are live now. It’s getting exciting, uncharted waters for sure. Next up was lunch. I went for two boxes of pad thai. I got them cooked up nice in the microwave and got my glass of blueberry lemonade and sat down just as it all began. I knew we’d be getting some high winds and storm action today but didn’t realize it would be so spectacular. It started at 1:55pm or so and lasted for about seven minutes. The rain was completely sideways. I got up to get a better view and as I did debris started flying off the construction site down the way and something big hit the hydro pole. It exploded in a massive shower of white light and blue sparks. And the power went off immediately. It was hard to see through the rain but I make out a lot of shingles flapping and lots of big things flying through the air. When it started to dissipate, I could see the carnage. Many houses were missing shingles. A couple fences were damaged and some sheds were damaged. It even blew over a pile of wood for the neighbour’s new fence.

It wasn’t as bad for me, that I know of, and yet. At the time of writing, I’m expecting future bouts of wind but I didn’t lose any shingles in this round. It did clear my chairs off the deck, some fairly violently. One was somehow about five feet down the small passage between fence and house. I surveyed my property for damage and didn’t find much. While I was stacking the chairs and flipping the table over, the lady next door came out and let me know she’d called around or something and nothing was missing off either of our roofs. She is planning to have a roofer come by and check for loose shingles and offered to request he check mine too. She did this a couple years ago and they found none and charged her nothing. Let’s hope it’s the same story. A secure roof heading into winter is optimal for this climate. The cost is between $100 and $140 cash is preferred. Some neighbours took action immediately and started tacking their own shingles back on in the gusty, wet conditions. Not a great plan. I spent some time cleaning up and then watching the storm. I only got a couple hours of work done as a result. Late in the day I started back into the Office and ended up finishing the series. It was good, nice finale. I finished it around ten. Overall, a pretty decent day.