How High's the Water, Momma?
Sep. 24th, 2005 01:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaThe gusts have gotten worse, although the rain is still mostly light. There are occasional bursts of heavy rain, but they've lasted less than a minute each, so far. In between, the droplets are still big, but they're falling fairly far apart. There's a steady wind of what I'd guess is probably about 15-20 mph, with gusts that are making the tree behind our apartment thrash - I wouldn't care to guess the wind speed on those.
A piece of what looks like trim - maybe half an inch thick, two or three inches wide, and six feet long or so, painted white on one of the flat sides - has blown off of somewhere (probably the building behind our apartments, but possibly the back side of our carport) and gotten caught in the phone/power lines leading to the apartment. I'm hoping it will fall back out again before it knocks the power out - it would be stupid to lose power to something that light.
The Spouse has the weather radio in the other room and is doing his weird thing of sleeping through it, trusting that if anything important happens, it will wake him up. *shrug*
Weather.com says that landfall will be along the TX/LA border . . . shortly. Once the eye's made landfall, the wind engine should start to dissipate. Hope the Golden Parallelogram's got the hatches battened.
I may go nap in the front room - it's on the lee side of the building right now. (The bedroom, where the Spouse is, is on the windward side right now. Of course, by the time we wake up, the wind will be coming out of the west-northwest instead of the north-northeast.)
EDIT, 1:40 am: Now there are these eerie bursts of dead quiet between gusts, no steady wind at all. I can hear an ambulance out in the distance somewhere, and a piece of sheet metal blowing around (making that awful faux-thunder noise). No lightning yet, no thunder, still not that much rain - just the periodic wind. I'm going to try to sleep for a bit, and turn the computer off for a while. If the power's still on when I get up, I'll update again.
A piece of what looks like trim - maybe half an inch thick, two or three inches wide, and six feet long or so, painted white on one of the flat sides - has blown off of somewhere (probably the building behind our apartments, but possibly the back side of our carport) and gotten caught in the phone/power lines leading to the apartment. I'm hoping it will fall back out again before it knocks the power out - it would be stupid to lose power to something that light.
The Spouse has the weather radio in the other room and is doing his weird thing of sleeping through it, trusting that if anything important happens, it will wake him up. *shrug*
Weather.com says that landfall will be along the TX/LA border . . . shortly. Once the eye's made landfall, the wind engine should start to dissipate. Hope the Golden Parallelogram's got the hatches battened.
I may go nap in the front room - it's on the lee side of the building right now. (The bedroom, where the Spouse is, is on the windward side right now. Of course, by the time we wake up, the wind will be coming out of the west-northwest instead of the north-northeast.)
EDIT, 1:40 am: Now there are these eerie bursts of dead quiet between gusts, no steady wind at all. I can hear an ambulance out in the distance somewhere, and a piece of sheet metal blowing around (making that awful faux-thunder noise). No lightning yet, no thunder, still not that much rain - just the periodic wind. I'm going to try to sleep for a bit, and turn the computer off for a while. If the power's still on when I get up, I'll update again.
