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Tied Down
The drive home. Two hours ago.
And the real snow and wind didn't start until midnight local. Ha.
Power went out around 8.
Driving home I saw these awesome and fascinating not flashes that lit up the road and countryside for miles near where one of our volunteer FD folks had blocked off a road. Figured it was explosions of some sort and they were probably not having a lot of fun in the weather.
One friend on the FD later confirmed it was high tension lines arcing.
Truly was something beautiful and strange to behold. Blizzard conditions. Doing the "drive at warp speed" Star Wars streaks thing in the headlights and then zaaaaaap for many seconds at a time. Each time a different color diffused and bright enough you didn't need headlights for the whole time it was doing it. Turquoise, Yellow-white, Orange-y, and one brilliant white. Amazing. Don't even know how to describe it. Multiple arcs lasting multiple seconds each time and lighting up the whole road all the way to horizon, the plunged back into our usual total darkness with no street lights and two ruts in the snow to keep plodding through in 4WD.
Anyway. Basement is slowly cooling. Down to 63F and 56 knot gusts expected through 9AM. Once it's daylight I'll be out dragging the generator to the house from the RV trailer and setting up temp power for the pellet stove. Should be lovely.
Internet is still up via the office UPS running the router and the iPhone. And of course our whopping 3G cell coverage when that quits. Haha.
Probably all be melted by Wednesday. Hahaha.
Wheeee. Winter is here.
Wind is blowing much harder out here that at APA but here's the METAR. Heh.
And the real snow and wind didn't start until midnight local. Ha.
Power went out around 8.
Driving home I saw these awesome and fascinating not flashes that lit up the road and countryside for miles near where one of our volunteer FD folks had blocked off a road. Figured it was explosions of some sort and they were probably not having a lot of fun in the weather.
One friend on the FD later confirmed it was high tension lines arcing.
Truly was something beautiful and strange to behold. Blizzard conditions. Doing the "drive at warp speed" Star Wars streaks thing in the headlights and then zaaaaaap for many seconds at a time. Each time a different color diffused and bright enough you didn't need headlights for the whole time it was doing it. Turquoise, Yellow-white, Orange-y, and one brilliant white. Amazing. Don't even know how to describe it. Multiple arcs lasting multiple seconds each time and lighting up the whole road all the way to horizon, the plunged back into our usual total darkness with no street lights and two ruts in the snow to keep plodding through in 4WD.
Anyway. Basement is slowly cooling. Down to 63F and 56 knot gusts expected through 9AM. Once it's daylight I'll be out dragging the generator to the house from the RV trailer and setting up temp power for the pellet stove. Should be lovely.
Internet is still up via the office UPS running the router and the iPhone. And of course our whopping 3G cell coverage when that quits. Haha.
Probably all be melted by Wednesday. Hahaha.
Wheeee. Winter is here.
Wind is blowing much harder out here that at APA but here's the METAR. Heh.
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