Wed. Apr. 27th.2011, Stormy , Windy Weather

Join us as we travel North America in our Holiday Rambler Vacationer, 

 since August 2006

  KW Record. High Winds Lash the Region

        A bit warmer today, at least not the bitter cold we had a few days ago. I ran a few errands and the weird weather had the sun come out, light rain, sunny, heavy rain, sunny, cloudy, and rain. Every time I wanted to do something outside it began raining.

       Finally about 3:00 pm I was ready to do go outside again, and it once again began to rain lightly. I came back inside our coach and noticed Omer come out of the garage in the heavy rain, with thunder and lightning heading to our coach, he wanted in, was afraid of the storm. So inside he came and the rains began. We had sideways rain and huge gusts of wind (up to 89kph, 50mph) rocking our coach. After a few minutes it went away and our electricity went off.

       After checking about a few small branches in the yard came down, a larger one near the end of the laneway and a huge one just down the road, blocking the road and taking down some power lines with it.

branch  down the lane

       As luck would have it Ontario Hydro workers were just around the corner and were soon there. But they could not do much until their forestry crew got there with chain saws to cut up the huge tree and open the road.

cleaned up branches

crews ready to work

       They need electricity for the milkers and to do chores in the barn so the emergency generator came out and was hooked up to a tractor suppling enough power to the barn. We were ok with  our power inverter, solar panel and our own generator if we need it. They were heading out for supper with friends so we decided to just grab a take out pizza in Plattsville for another early supper. Then we could read and compute for a while, the winds died down and the sun came out after the storm. We watched a movie on tv and went to bed just before 10 pm the power was still not restored. So this morning once it warmed up a bit I went outside and plugged us back into power. All is well here.

       Its just too bad that we do not have the warning systems in place for severe weather, like we have experienced south of the border. It seems difficult to find out information until after the fact.

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