The news for about a week has been all about Hurricane Ian and the severe damage it caused to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Florida, the Carolinas and on up the East Coast.
But yesterday we here in Arizona could have been forgiven if we hadn't thought we had our own hurricane.
It began in the morning with a forecast of occasional showers in the afternoon.
But when it came, it came with a passion.
We huddled inside as the rain blew horizontally and two big trees in our front yard rocked and roared, threatening to come right out of the ground.
The power failed several times briefly and once for about 25 minutes.
Today our news was filled with reports of the power outages and of trees down from north to south.
A couple fell across two cars parked at a dentist's office in Prescott.
There were reports of 8 to 10 homes damaged by a tornado to the north of us west of Flagstaff.
And in Phoenix to the south a dust storm swept into the Valley downing trees and causing at least one inbound airplane flight to be diverted to Tucson.
Here in our new home we worried about our brand new roof which was just put on last week but it seems to have survived.
It was a little scary but at least there do not seem to have been any injuries caused by what for Paradise, i.e. Arizona, was what would be called some freak weather.
Today the sun was shining again.
WOW! Glad the roof held. After all you two went through moving in, would have been horrific to have to move yet again.
ReplyDeleteMan, I'd hope a week old roof would hold.
ReplyDeleteWe had our own version here in Adelaide SA, two days worth of strong winds and rain, with more than a few fully grown giant gum trees being uprooted and falling onto cars and across roads. One fell during the day near my younger son's workplace and cut the power so he got to go home early and spend time with the twins. Today is calm and sunny again.
ReplyDeleteA day to clean up after that. Many trees down. Listened to chainsaws and blowers all day. What a mess. And then the sun came out.
ReplyDeleteAlso WOW - didn't expect that kind of weather report from your part of the world!
ReplyDeleteThat is not what you expect there.
ReplyDeleteThat was a freak storm, wasn't it? It took me by surprise. The wind was crazy. I watched the trees swaying like they were little sticks. Luckily, there wasn't any damage in my area, just lots of twigs and leaves on the ground.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like quite a crazy storm there. Good to know you didn't get much damage there. The weather has been interesting lately.
ReplyDeleteThat was unexpected and scary. We need some of that rain although I will pass on the wind. Glad the roof stayed put!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds really scary.
ReplyDeleteWow! Well, thank goodness your new place held!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're safe!
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