By The Way...

The picture above is of the clouds in the southern sky, as photographed from my front porch; what you're not seeing is the fact that in about two minutes, the cloud at the extreme top right corner of the picture made it to where the left side of the picture would be. We have just that much wind at the moment.

And it was worse yesterday; I spent most of my evening under a tornado watch, which didn't happen, so that's good. But we still got enough wind that my patio furniture moved around like Captain Howdy and his demonic friends were having a tea party. My wife, who is in California visiting family, urged me to go down to basement. I could have told her the same, since southern California was experiencing its own freakish weather at the particular moment. But of course in California a "basement" is the crawlspace you have to haul rodent carcasses out of, not a proper basement at all. So it wouldn't have done her much good.

In all we lost a few tiles from the roof, and I woke up a few times in the night convinced a railroad had been laid ten feet from house. But everything was still here when I woke and more or less where it should be. It's going to stay windy, though, all day long, and tonight it's supposed to get down to 24 degrees. If there was any question we're falling toward winter, I think it's been pretty well answered now.

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