Aftermath

Chez Szondy came off very lucky after last night's wind storm. I thought the damage was pretty bad when I saw part of a neighbour's roof come off and a couple of dozen trees down along the road, but after the power came back on, we decided to go into town to deal with a few errands. What we found was what looked as if a drunken giant had gone a spree.

Down in the valley, a whole stand of trees looked like a flattened field of corn. Along the Woodinville-Duval Road, so many pine trees had crashed along the road that the work crews had done little more than cut a winding path through the wreckage; leaving motorists to dodge stumps, low-lying branches, and strewn power lines. Beyond that, about a million people were without electricity-- which isn't in any way surprising.

We did not get to town.