The valley got hit with another big windstorm – actually bigger and longer than the last one. The other one, back in January of 2022, only lasted three days with gusts up to 90 mph. This one has been going on for well over a week and they’ve recorded 100 mph gusts out at the airport in Palmer.
I am exhausted; I just can’t sleep with the howling winds. My mind keeps picturing trees falling on top of us. Or debris crashing through a window. Or our pipes bursting & flooding the place. Or any other of the hundreds of worst-case scenarios my brain can come up with. The only reason my cats haven’t spent the past 10 days in their traveling crates is because Bryan talks me down to a more reasonable level of panicked alertness. As it is, Viktor needs a lot of hugs lately. He does not like the wind any more than I do.
The worst to happen so far has been the three trees that got blown down. Two of them are just tiny things, with no damage done to anything. But that third tree – that was a big one! Thank goodness it didn’t hit anything, it could have taken out our house for sure! Bryan says he couldn’t have laid it down any better if he’d done it on purpose – it JUST missed our trailer and the shed out back.
Our neighbor wasn’t so lucky – you can just see the tree on his roof. The poor guys were out there in the freezing cold and bitter wind, all with chainsaws and ropes, working to get it off his house. Hopefully the damage was minimal.
During a lull in the winds, Bryan went outside and did a walk-around to see the state of things and found that somehow, something got our water main! It’s just the marker, so basically an easy fix – but seriously: How did that happen?
Inside the house we have silt everywhere. The winds definitely come from the glaciers nearby! So far, I have swept up hands full of the stuff at each door & window. Once it’s finally done blowing, I will have to do a more thorough cleaning with a mop to get it all.
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