High Winds

 It is cold and windy out there!  Right now it is blowing 50 mph sustained with 75 mph gusts and is a chilly 19 degrees Fahrenheit.  Could this mark the beginning of a decent winter?  I'm not getting my hopes up too high.  Last December we also got teased with 2 weeks of winter weather and the kids and I got to do a lot of skiing and sledding at the golf course (click here, here, here, and here).  But then on Christmas Day it got warmed and rained (click here) and that is the way it stayed for the rest of the winter.

That said I do plan on taking advantage of the winter weather.  Yesterday I took the kids skiing at the golf course, and I think we'll be going back a bunch in the next week.

Yesterday evening I went in to work at the museum to set up for today's Holiday Bazaar, and the winds on the harbor and the sunset light was impressive.  All the blowing snow in the air caught the low angled sunlight and turned hazy pastel colors.  The wind was whipping up the water into waterspouts off of the harbor.

I watched a gust rip the galvanized sheet siding off of the assisted living home and go flying into the electrical wires.  20 foot long pieces of sharp steel were bouncing down the sidewalk.  Later I saw a dumpster do a slow roll as it 'waddled' down a street.  Wrappers, cups and bags flying through the air all over town like confetti.  It was dangerous out there!  Patrick