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23 December 2006
Two trees fell on my house. Five days without power. Eight days without internet. I'm finally connected again! That sucked.
Holy crap. A bunch of my flickr friends and/or RL friends were without power or had basement floods, and one of them had a tree fall on their deck, but so far I didn't know anyone who had a tree fall ON THEIR HOUSE.
Wow. That totally sucks.
My basement flooded (I'm in the Madison Valley), but the PSU is going to indemnify me and my roommates for all the stuff we lost. Fortunately, we're all fine.
I'm living at my best friend's house in Mt. Baker for the foreseeable future.
That certainly was a storm to remember!
That's so weird, I was going to start a post asking where you were, agro. Glad to hear you're ok. A huge tree branch broke off of a tree in front of our house after a wind storm 2 months ago and speared through our roof AND ceiling. If anyone had been standing near it they would have been killed. I took photos of it - it was so freaky looking. The tree smashed our gutters, tore off roof tiles, broke a window, and smashed and destroyed a gorgeous japanese maple specimen tree. It was basically only one large branch but it did over 8,000.00 worth of damage. We had no power for 3 days, but luckily it wasn't cold out yet.
Jeez, agro that sucks! Glad you're finally back among the electrified. (We went for a week without power once after a hurricane, so I KNOW how miserable that is. It must be even moreso with the cold weather.)