CNY batten down the hatches

We only had a short hard blow last evening but it took out 2 more ash trees. The big one was dead but the smaller one was green and I had been hoping to save it. Firewood now.

 

We had a tornado warning in Southern Ashtabula County. Nasty winds and hail. Didn't lose power when it blew through at 2:30pm but lost it at 9:30pm until 5:30am this morning. I was just getting ready, literally uttered the words to my wife, "time to hook up the tractor to the generator" and it came back on. It was a second after those words left my mouth.

 

Love it when Mother Nature makes the decisions for us, and no buildings get hurt.

 

A couple small branches down here and they're already dragged off into the woods to the wood dump.
I was hoping the wind blew the leaves out of the oaks that were still hanging on to them but no such luck.
Prefer to clean the gutters out just once but it never seems to happen.

 

So this afternoon, late I might add, the wind let up a bit. So there's some good news for you in the East. But...

The wind is going to kick up again tomorrow 30 mph. The next couple of days after that look breezy too. I don't know what's up with this, but it's been very windy as of late.

 

Yah, I dunno...but it really blows!
Our backyard looks like a mini tornado went through here...what with all the crap blown around...I wanted to put the cover back on the wood pile, but it was still too windy after work to deal with it yet...

 

my helpers came out Sunday morning for breakfast and visiting. Encountered this a few miles from the house.

had to divert into the next county to get to the house.

 

That's why you have chainsaws in the truck when there's storms. BTDT,

 

naw, I let the road department handle it.

 

That works, if you don't mind waiting.
The one time we were stuck on a road with a tree across it way up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, we didn't have a saw in my jeep, but the truck 2 cars ahead of us did. Everyone helped clear the tree. 1 guy on the saw with 5 people hauling away wood to the ditch worked pretty well. If we waited for a road crew, it would've been a long wait. Had no power the entire weekend at the cabin, which was kind of fun really.

This was a small back road that lead to a lot of cabins. This was a Friday late afternoon in summer, and a storm front passed through while we were en route from college to the cabin for the weekend. There were confirmed tornadoes in that storm. An entire Poplar tree rolled across hwy 70 in front of me while I was driving near eagle river like it was a tumbleweed. I had to drive into the ditch, which was very nicely mowed, wide and smooth to avoid said tumbling poplar. That could have been right out of the movie "Twister".

That particular storm is also more than likely the same storm that dropped a tree on what ended up being my Ski Nautique's original trailer. I bought the boat a couple years after this storm and it came from the chain of lakes in eagle river. The boat had an escort brand galvanized trailer instead of the factory Nautique trailer. Boat was on a boat lift on the lake, and the trailer was in the lot across the street like so many people do. Boat was fine as it was well away from the tree, but the trailer was totaled.

 

Ugg. Is that your place?