Windy Shitty

Excuse the language, but it's the way we feel.

So, in case you haven't heard, our area got hit with winds around 93 mph on Thursday night. We got curtains of rain. So much rain that water was squirting up in the air, 4 feet up into the air, through storm drains. Not pretty. We've had really weird weather this year. First there was the snow storm, and now this weird week of wind. I was home sick, so I missed the flooding on Thursday night, but my spouse came home SOAKED from picking up a movie. His clothes were totally saturated, and he had only been outside for a moment or two. Anyway, the power went out late Thursday night/Friday morning. No power = no heat. Which would have been okay, had we a fireplace. Or, you know, WALLS. The temperature dropped very quickly on Friday. My place of work was open, but I was still sick. A friend called around noon and invited us to her place in a different part of the area. She still had power. Bless her heart! She and her husband, good friends of ours, took us in (we're still staying with them - still no power). Special thanks to them for providing us with heat, hot showers, a good bed, and wonderful company.

It's funny how much we miss the rat hole. As crappy as it is, it's still our home.

Also because of the wind, my brother didn't end up getting to come into town this weekend. The radar at the airport went down, and so his flight got cancelled. And he rescheduled. And it got cancelled again. So he gave up. No brother for me this week, and no huge push on work on the rat hole. *sigh* That means we gotta wait until after the new year to break down the old walls and put in the new.

In the meantime, we got rock. Mmmm. Good rock. My spouse will write more about that later, with pictures. Yay pictures!

The "bad" news: No damage was done to the icky house in front of us in the windstorm. The good news: our house didn't get damaged at all, either.