Storm of the Century

The weather has been super weird this winter. The weather forecasters say sunny and in reality we have clouds. They say partly cloud with a chance of flurries, we have sun. It's like their just throwing darts at a board and saying whatever they feel like it.

On December 1st they got it partially right. As this storm was heading our way, these brilliant forecasters named it, and I quote, the Storm of the Century. That's saying a lot. Needless to say, there was a run on ALL stores for milk, eggs, etc (although I don't understand what these people are doing with eggs and milk when their power and gas are out...)

The storm came at 2am and woke me up. The wind was whipping through pretty good so I grabbed our wreath off the front door and went back to bed. We woke to chaos. The power was out, the winds were over 100 mph in some spots, roofing was being ripped off roofs, trees were downed, semis were turned over on the freeway, windows were broken. It was fun to stay home snuggled in a blanket and listen to the wind.

As I was sitting on the couch reading, I heard a HUGE crack. I hopped up to see the huge pine tree in front of our apartment on it's side. The root ball was so big it popped the sidewalk right out of the ground. This was a day I loved being a renter.
Our apartment complex had to be renamed; it was Lone Pine, now it's None Pine. Muahhahahaha I'm so funny!

This is the Bountiful Cemetery. Tragic.

This house up the street from us is condemned more or less. The wind knocked over a tree, that knocked over a power line, the started the house on fire. Reminds me of the song "and the root in the hole, and the hole in the ground, and the green grass grew all around and around and the green grass grew all around".

I love this picture. It's a short christmas tree with a loooooong trunk.

I don't know if I'd agree to the "Storm of the Century" because it was just wind. No snow, hail, rain, flash floods, earthquake, tsunami, etc. I will allow "a pretty bad-A storm" and possibly "the first breath of winter" something like that.