There are four seasons in the south, and sometimes two of them happen in the same week, or even in the same day. Today, for instance, the temp rose to a spring-like mid-sixties here, and to the 70s in the central part of the state. But as a cold front passed through, it plummeted again to winter-cold. Our favorite TV weathermen say we could even see wintry precipitation later this week...maybe snow or sleet, which is predicted to be followed by a warm-up again by the weekend.
A large part of the state was under a tornado watch today but, thank goodness, nothing came of it. Gusty winds, though, blew a lot of leaves off our two acres, across the highway, and into the neighbor's pasture. I figure the cattle and horses that graze there won't mind.
The wind also blew a tree over on this same neighbor's land adjacent to our property on the north side. We wouldn't have known this, except that just before lunch, Mother noticed highway department vehicles on the road in front of our house, with flagmen directing traffic. Hubbie went out to find out what was going on and saw that part of the tree had fallen across the fence, across the ditch, and then out onto the highway.
These events are trivial, however, compared to thousands south and east of us, including some of Hubbie's relatives, who are without electricity tonight because of power lines downed by 50 to 60 mile-per-hour winds. We are told that about two miles of poles in that area have broken or blown over. Some buildings, and at least one school, were damaged in our region, too.
I hope wind-blown coifs are still in style, because that's what Hubbie and I will be sporting at our third ballroom dancing lesson tonight. But who cares, as long as the lights stay on!
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It's been windy all day here, too. A side shed at my tire guy's place blew down. Billboards blew apart. Downed trees here and there. And my poor TV antenna, the pole already bent, is now laying across my roof. It was dark when I got home, so I don't know if any trees here lost limbs or not. Our temp is supposed to drop to 28 degrees tonight!
Hope you don't discover any further damage in the daylight today. We won't know how much damage the city and county sustained until the newspaper comes this afternoon, but a couple of members of water aerobics had some damage to property...one said the roof was blown off her barn, and another, like you, said her shed was destroyed.
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