The last few days have been calm, but the two weeks before that were a different story. We had one big storm after another pummel us here at the coast.
I snapped these out the window of the car as we were driving to Raymond. These are normally fields–not lakes or bays!
But the real damage was from the wind. Because we have a lot of rain and a high water table, trees here don’t put down very deep roots.
This is at my mom and dad’s old house. There aren’t many trees left there anymore!
The wind wiped out a few signs in downtown Long Beach.
It’s no surprise we lost power.
We were only out 12 hours. My mom and dad were out for 48 hours.
This cottage in Seaview was damaged when a huge tree fell.
And this travel trailer got a surprise ride! Photo courtesy of beachdog.com.
The calm after the storm.
7 Responses
December 1st, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Well now there will be plenty of firewood for those that need it, huh? Dang, sure glad we missed out on that one. Did you have any of your trees go down?
Happy that it has blown by!
December 1st, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Wow!!!! That is amazing.
December 1st, 2009 at 10:41 pm
That’s part of living at the coast and you wouldn’t trade it for anything! I would love to be there, too.
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:24 am
It got darned ugly down there, huh? We only had power outages about every day for 4 or 5 days. But they didn’t last over a couple hours I don’t think. Some were just real quick flashes. Glad you didn’t get any damage at your place.
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Great photos. Why is it those trees never look that big when they’re upright?!
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:55 am
those pictures are something, youngest boy lives down there and came to stay with us for a few days and by time he got here they had power back on.also there was a women on the today show for birthday ,she was 110 years old and they asked her what did she attributed to having a long life and she said it was becase she quilted her whole life.
December 7th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Great pic’s Karen. We were in Seaview over T-day, and heard many horror stories. So far only fences were down. I just hope that one of these days we don’t see pictures of our house with a tree through it on your blog. We have a neighbor with one left. Stay warm ! !
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