Well, we survived the windstorm with only losing the power for one day.  Almost every road to town was blocked by fallen trees.  Poor Dusty has influenza, and the day before he realized he was sick and was just feeling generally bad and grouchy was the day of the fallen trees.  He had to drive clear over the other mountain and around by his mom and dad's just to get into work.  He was such a bear that day!  Poor guy, then he spiked a 101 temp and started getting sick that night.  He stayed in a horizontal position from Wednesday until Sunday.  Yesterday I drove him to work and then to a bunch of job sites to check progress and supervise.  He's on the mend though, and is going to try to come home early today. 

 

Now there is a freak snow...can't call it a storm, just snow, about an inch on the valley floor in Portland and 2 inches, might make it to 3 or 4 inches up here.  It'll warm up this afternoon and change to rain though.  All this is highly unusual and quite interesting for this area, I must say.  I've been out taking pictures and laughing my butt off at people here.  It's a nice, slushy snow and is hardly any slicker than the usual rain, but get this:  the school buses and the snow plows, _yes, I said snow plows_ are all chained up.  I couldn't help it, I took pictures as I was rolling around in the snow laughing.  I tried to get sideways in my truck and couldn't do so easily, so I really can't figure out why they had chains on.  Oh well, I guess that's what I get from being from the Rocky Mountain area.  Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.  

 

Our phone is totally out for some reason--it makes a horrific, loud, static noise when picked up.  So far so good on the power though, until someone takes out another line, or the heavy wet snow does.