Weather Alert

We had plans work on a few projects around the house and get some drawing done for the four day weekend. But life being what it is we ended up hiding out in house from some serious weather along with the rest of the town. There was a really bad storm Friday night which knocked down a few limbs on the deck along with some leaves. When we woke on Saturday it was nice enough for us to clean up debris and get on with our weekend.

Gale Force Wind and Storm Surge

We thought for sure the worst of it was over, but Saturday night proved us wrong as it really started to blow hard. The house would shake from the gale force gusts come off the water up the hill. Every now and then I would venture out on the deck to check on the trees surrounding the house. It was quite the surprise to see these giant trees twisting in the wind as sheets of rain would slam into them and the house. Patricia went to bed early I on the other hand decided to stay up to keep an eye on the storm as it wasn't letting up. At about 2 am the power went out, Patricia woke up at this point we proceeded to turn off all electronic equipment. When this was done we both went to bed fully expecting that power would come back on in the morning after repairs. Little did we realize that our whole weekend would be with out power.

Here we are camping out in the living room with oil lamps.

Mardi camping out on the sofa with us.

After the storm past thorough the Ketchikan area sometime on Tuesday it was apparent that this storm was much different than previous storms. I ventured out to survey the storm damage which was quite extensive in certain areas. The center of town had power while the outlying subdivision were doing with out. I spent most of Sunday and Monday tracking down ice so that we wouldn't lose the food in our freezer. Monday late afternoon power was restored to side of town. Then sometime on Tuesday we lost power once again to some more trees falling on power lines in our driveway feeding the house. Utility crew cleared away the trees and few hours later we had power once again.

Line men working in our driveway cutting trees laying on our power line.

Some minor damage adding to my honey do list.

A group of trees leaning on the power lines just down from the house.

KPU crew working hard to fix down power line along
South Tongass Highway on my way back from town.

Good sign after this series of storms moved thorough the area.
Amazes me how danger and beauty can co-exist in this world.

Summer Storm

This storm came rolling in from across the Alaska/Canadian border late this evening. As you can see the storm front was huge, the thunder was quite long and loud. We drove down to the water front just down the road from the house and took this video. These type of storms are pretty rare around here so when it happens they really grab your attention. We drove back up to the house to unplug the electronic equipment just in the event the storm knocks out power.