Land of Mt. Hood and the Source of the East Wind

Temperature currently 50F as of 1:15 PM PDT here in Gresham. Not raining. Wind 11 mph out of the southeast. Nothing like yesterday during the windstorm that kept me home. Wind gusts were over 90 mph on the Oregon coast. That's almost category 2! At the Portland Airport they measured 56 mph! Not much rain though. Oddly they mowed our lawn in the morning when the high wind was already blowing. That was before some large limbs off the fir trees in the back yard fell on the lawn, plus a couple of sections of the fiberglass awnings they have over the second story decks! 262,000 customers were without electrical power! Some still are! My lights only blinked out once, then came right back on. MAX Train service west of Portland was shut down because of trees across the tracks! One person died because of the storm. Kim called me later from a pay phone to see if I were all right. I was glad to her that she was all right.

I made good use of my time at home getting my digital camera working, and then my printer working. But just after I uploaded the pictures to my computer, the on/off button broke on the camera, making it unusable! I think I may be able to fix it though. Otherwise I'm out of business!

They have just started playing loud mariachi music here at the library with girls in Mexican costumes dancing! Very annoying! If I were to start singing, or become that noisy in any manner, they would kick me out of here. I've seen it happen to other people here.

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