So we heard from family that there was news about our "wild weather" here in the Pacific Northwest. We had some pretty strong winds in Oregon, up to 100mph on the coast, not as hard as that here though.
Although we heard the wind, we had ensured that everything was out of the way, so it would not get blown about. All of the fun occured during the night, and we were not significantly impacted.
The kids school was closed on Friday - which was supposed to be their last day. They were dissapointed, as they were supposed to be having their winter party. Instead they kept Tara company during the day. All of the schools for the Beaverton district were closed on Friday because of the storm.
We heard from others though, who were not so lucky. Many people lost electricity due to the high winds blowing down trees. They dropped all over the place causing much of the power outages. Many people were without power until the weekend, and some are still not quite sorted out.
Then last night (Saturday) at around 7.30pm, a fire broke out in a power substation near the office. This is about 10 minutes walk away from the office, and I heard from someone who was working (when the power went out) that the flames could be seen in the sky from the office quite clearly.
Below is a photograph from the fire, as you can see - pretty intense. The fire crews had to leave the fire to burn itself out, because it was electrical, and the fear of getting fire fighters electrocuted.
Lets just say it has been an eventful week! And through none of it, did we get impacted!
