Thursday, February 12, 2009

Windy and living right

Lincoln Day 2009 brought a rather intense wind storm to western Pennsylvania -much of the eastern U.S., really - causing power outages and other mayhem.



We had some odds and ends blown around our porch and the wind got under the the grill cover, all too briefly turning it into a light than air craft. It landed face down in the muddy back yard.
The more interesting development was noticing a neighbor's trampoline parked in the spot where my car usually spends the night.



For no particular reason, the night before, I had parked the car a little further back in the parking area than usual. The result was a near miss instead of lengthy conversations with the neighbor and insurance adjusters.



I count myself fortunate.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a comment.

that looks like it blows!(sorry)

Bob said...

Aye, that it did. A 50 foot pine fell onto my other neighbor's parking space, five minutes after he pulled the car out to go shopping. Darn good thing the storm didn't hit the next day (Friday the 13th!) :)