Raspberry Part II
Sep. 13th, 2019 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ismoI'd better hurry up and post before something else happens. Our wifi came back on again this evening and was on for a couple of hours, until it went off again, along with the power. It was just after sunset, so there we were in the dark. We got out the emergency lanterns. The good news is that in so doing, we found the working radio. Apparently we put it in the closet so we'd know where it was . . . . The Sparrowhawk accessed the power outage map on his phone. They said it might take three hours to get it back up. We were feeling pretty cranky, but then it came back on again after about half an hour. So yay! My confidence in the power company is not very great at this point, however.
The weather people have concluded that this wasn't a tornado, but we did have straight-line winds of 100 mph for short bursts. That is what did the damage. That level of wind is equivalent to an F1 tornado or a category 2 hurricane and in fact was higher than the winds of Dorian when they hit the North Carolina coast. Of course, they were not sustained the way a hurricane wind is, so they didn't do as much damage, but the people who lost their roof probably don't feel that way! Our neighborhood was just on the periphery of the area of high wind, so we didn't get the worst of it, and everything is fine here.
Today I ate two pieces of toast, some chicken soup, and half a potato, and I only feel slightly queasy, so there's hope for getting back to normal soon.
The weather people have concluded that this wasn't a tornado, but we did have straight-line winds of 100 mph for short bursts. That is what did the damage. That level of wind is equivalent to an F1 tornado or a category 2 hurricane and in fact was higher than the winds of Dorian when they hit the North Carolina coast. Of course, they were not sustained the way a hurricane wind is, so they didn't do as much damage, but the people who lost their roof probably don't feel that way! Our neighborhood was just on the periphery of the area of high wind, so we didn't get the worst of it, and everything is fine here.
Today I ate two pieces of toast, some chicken soup, and half a potato, and I only feel slightly queasy, so there's hope for getting back to normal soon.
