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BLOWN AWAY

Last night, a new front came in and the winds blew and the shit flew.

Gusts up to 50 mph were recorded.

We lost power for about an hour. We went to bed and it came back on fairly early in the night.

This morning, there was the inventory taking.

A lot of branches in the road. A eucalyptus tree at a neighbor's house lost a huge branch. The tree is enormous. Too big for this kind of wind.

I turned into the mall on the way to the gym and mailed some letters. There were six small mesquite trees down. Small means maybe 15 feet high.

The biggest event at our house, other than the leaves and branches, the shit in our yard, was the toppling of the huge plant "Eileen".

This thing is huge in a huge pot. It tool two of us to turn her back up again.

Her name is Eileen because she started as a three foot plant that a friend bought us as a housewarming present. She now has about eight big three and four inch thick trunks and is about ten feet tall. Eileen has grown up.

Labels: horticulture, weather