So I missed the storm warning. It wasn’t until windows were rattling, trees were falling, my shed roof was blowing away, and the power had gone out that I found out there was a “weather alert”. I am sure many of you have heard of the exciting happenings here in Walla Walla on Friday, January 4. For those of you who haven’t, I’m sure there are YouTube videos by now. In fact, I know there are. Here’s one from the Union Bulletin.
But I think it was the following weekend that the storm really hit me. Business meetings gone awry. Strange dreams. And I woke up on this Monday morning to go to work, couldn’t find the key to the office, so made arrangements for someone else to unlock the building by 7:30 a.m. (when I am scheduled to arrive), then my car battery was dead AND I had a flat tire.
I think the afternoon of nailing a tarp over the gaping hole in my shed roof, balancing precariously on crossbeams in wind gusts up to 80 mph, and spending about 40 hours without power was actually easier to deal with than the chaos of these last two days.
After sharing a bottle of Dusted Valley wine in a rather dusty and cold valley, I feel better. But it’s been a 14 hour work day and I am ready for the storm to subside. So thanks to Chad and Corey at Dusted Valley for their wonderful wine, a much needed reprieve from the craziness of a mid-January Monday.
I raise a glass to calm weather — inside and out.
