The annual remembrance of the time in 1947 when a crash, just to the west, placed our little burg in the public eye.
Well, until this year it seems!
Yeah, mother nature descended with a vengeance!
So, on my clock it was 4 pm, but the power company says it was 3:50.
Doesn't matter, the power went out to the whole area!
We had flickering for about 10 minutes then nothing!
I thought, "How odd!"
We barely had any rain.
Almost no wind.
And yet something blew somewhere?
Well, not exactly ...
It seems that 6 miles north of here, there was a major wind event.
No observed records or mechanical readings, it hit where there is nothing other than manufacturing buildings!
In all 24 of the big power poles and towers were brought down!
Taking out all of the power to the south-end of Seattle!
This poor driver got caught by one of the poles!
Amazingly, she and her passenger were unharmed!
Wow!
How fortuitous is that?!
And that was end of the UFO party!
No bands could play,
No records spun,
No short film contest,
No beer could be pumped,
Just wet people standing in the dark.
Yeah, sort of a statement about the whole UFO issue:
Everyone left standing in the dark .....
As for me,
I had just put GG down for a nap - she is still in much pain from her knee replacement!
Heated my afternoon tea water,
Poured it,
Flicker - Flicker - Flicker!
And lights out.
We still had a bit of daylight,
So I lit up my kerosene storm lamps,
A pillar in the bathroom and one in the living room.
Tried to work on my current painting, but too little light!
Tried to read, but again, too little light.
So, I stood in the doorway to the front bridge to the road.
There was utter calm,
The sky held that odd yellowish brown color of a storm approaching.
There was utter silence.
GG woke up about 5:00 and I filled her in on the conditions.
We left to hunt food in Tukwila, as son has my camp stove!
And just before we got there, the power snapped back on.
Well, up until then, people had been thinking and respectful.
But threaten them with a red light and everyone stomped on the gas!
It was kill or be killed by these idiots all wanting across the intersections!
Luckily, I was already entering when the power surged on!
So the disaster was behind me.
And the last intersection before Outback was well managed!
Thank you, Lord!
I really do not want to get hit in my little 4x4!
Of youngest daughter called half way through the meal to find out where we were.
Since she is never home on a Friday night, I never even thought of her!
I bad .....
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