Alaskan Typhoon

This week has been crazy! It started out in the middle of the night Sunday morning. It was raining (of course) and the wind was blowing so hard I thought our roof was going to blow off - I was half asleep. At 1am the power went off. Lexi woke up terrified, screaming bloody murder. Since their night light was out we left a small flashlight on in their room.

I had an 8:30 meeting at the church (power was still off) and couldn't believe the damage everywhere. Trees were uprooted and knocked over. A power pole had shattered half way up and was hanging by the power lines. A tree had totally taken out power lines in Ward Cove area, and there was just a mess of debris everywhere! The road to the church was blocked off with fireman caution/don't cross tape because a tree had split, pulled down a power line and caught fire. Church was canceled. Power was out for everyone on the island for various amounts of time.

We were lucky and had our power turned back on at 1:30pm. Friends of mine were without power from 1am to 11pm Sunday.

It was a wakeup call. We figured we could cook food on our propane grill. We had some candles, flashlights and our water tank, and could get by for a short time, but in no way are we truly prepared for a disaster.

More crazy winds last night broke another power pole in half, just a few houses down from us. Power was out from 6pm last night to 5am this morning.

I can't tell you how many times I've had to reset clocks around here. Power's got off and on so many other times as they're working to get everything back to normal.

I've heard the wind gusts were in the 90 mph at times. Luckily I haven't heard of anyone getting hurt, and this has mostly been just some sort of adventure.