Archive for January 4th, 2008

2008.01.04

Storm Damage

During lunch today I took a walk and took a few pictures of the damage from the storm. While this wave seems to be over for now there’s supposed to be another front coming in tonight. While I do love storms and horrible weather in general, I don’t like the damage so much. I empathize too much. I guess they’ll call this the Great Pacific Storm of 2008. I kind of wonder if this is just the first of many to come.

The first picture shows a car completely smashed by an uprooted tree. Two of the tires popped. When I took the picture a little girl came up and said, “Cool!” The second picture show two immense branches that came off a tree and buried two cars and a truck. It was taken in front of the pool I swim at (that I need to start doing again).

2008.01.04

Stormy Weather

California is getting hammered right now. We haven’t had we had a storm like this in quite a while. My commute in to work was chaotic. Trees down, porta-potties in the middle of the road, flooding, power outages… Even my front door had been jarred lose this morning. Fortunately the cats had the good sense not to go exploring! The awesome thing is that Tahoe will soon have tons of snow. Almost time to start snowboarding (rubs hands in glee while grinning).

So in honor of this awesome weather, here’s WFMU’s collection of 72 versions of Stormy Weather. Get the set and play on repeat for the next couple days!