Comments on: California Wimps

By: milmilo2

milmilo2 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:16:49 +0000

Gray glop from the sky
Freezing milk-shake parking lot
“Jack Ass, slow down!” Splash.

– yea, it was a miserable week-end here too. Uninspired or inspired by the storm?
I made an incredible homemade French onion soup and wrote you a haiku. ….hmmmm?

By: Moose

Moose — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:33:10 +0000

Thanks everyone! We got lucky. By the time I posted this entry, the worst of the storm had passed. We never lost electricity for more than a few seconds and, aside from a few leaks (you never know how renovations are going to hold until the first big rainstorm), no house damage. Though I suspect that if I wandered outside (which I’m not doing until, say, May), I’d find a number of fallen tree limbs. Hopefully not too many broken windows.

Denise: Hope you enjoy the Hilton’s maid service! (And that you get to go home as soon as maid service gets old. Which might be never, I suppose.)

Nicole: This entry would have been more accurately titled “San Francisco Wimps”. Referring specifically to the wimps in my house who jump at the first sign of wind.

By: nicole

nicole — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:01:42 +0000

Why did you title this California Wimps? This weather is legit. Being from/in California does not mean flooding, white-out conditions and winds of up to 163mph (in Lake Tahoe) are nothing to be concerned about.

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:10:27 +0000

Last night, hystrionic newscasters alerted us to heavy winds that were to sweep up the Strait of Juan de Fuca and rattle the cages of all Port Angeles, WA residents. It never happened. We apparently passed this particular blow job on down to California. If I could, I’d loan you a generator to go with it. Good luck.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:34:54 +0000

Have a care! I like a good storm – so long as it doesn’t get a little too personal. Say, knocking my windows out. We have our own sides of the glass and we should stick to them. Hopefully your dinner was uninturrupted by an impromptu boating expedition!

By: Denise

Denise — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:39:02 +0000

Having lost electricity at 9:00 this am along with the side yard fence and tree branches. On the other side of the fence is our neighbor and their dreaded and vicious german sheppard, Saber. Saber now thinks our backyard is his new toilet. When I yelled at him to go home, he jumped up on our patio furniture and had the nerve to viciously bark at me. The neighbors are nowhere to be found.

Jim and I are happily installed at the Hilton downtown. We have heat, electricity, free HBO, warmth and internet access. I would have made a terrible pioneer woman. PG&E says our power will be back on late tomorrow afternoon but just in case, I’ve booked for a second night. Almaden had over 5″ of rain today.

By: whoorl

whoorl — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:16:08 +0000

We’re just waiting for the onslaught down here. The skies are definitely starting to look ominous. Stay warm and dry up there!

By: All Adither

All Adither — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:22:30 +0000

Ooh. Storms from the comfort of home. That sounds lovely.

By: Camels & Chocolate

Camels & Chocolate — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:15:08 +0000

Don’t blow away! Then who would make San Francisco all its delicious cookies and other baked goods?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:35:56 +0000

Beach Chalet? Is it tasty?

It’s raining sideways down here, and the cats and the rabbit are all cowering, Fred in his cage, the gray cat under the bed, and the white one wedged between my back and the couch. Good thing I decided to stay home and work here today instead of leaving him to his own devices!

If this were Iowa, we’d have over a foot of snow by now.

Stay warm and dry and safe!