Our uninvited Christmas tree(s)

jamesfinnigan — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:23:37 GMT

Well, there's a lot of story to the last couple days so I'm going to bite it off in pieces. Here's the story of our uninvited Christmas trees. Backstory to follow.

Here's tree #1 - but it's not our house. This is our neighbor's house - their cars were parked in front of the garage, so it was a bit of a near miss.

Fortunately, this tree went pretty quickly because the tree didn't have too much in the way of intertwining limbs and we had a few chainsaws (notice the cable box ripped out with the roots).

Here's tree #2 - and that's our fence. Well, it was anyway. This tree is actually made up of four main limbs that all got tangled together. We actually have a tree in there (totally demolished by the falling one).

The fence was shattered because the tree limbs fell from up here (next picture)

One of those main limbs smashed in the boat and hitch. The rest smashed our fence.

After a couple days of work, here's what it looked like:

We're glad that we only lost a fence, and we really appreciated the support of our friends and neighbors.

James & Colette

Washington flood waters

jamesfinnigan — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:10:26 GMT

There has been a lot of rain here lately. I gave a coworker a ride home tonight and found myself driving through a river on the road (more than 6 inches - it had waves), right about here (see map). There's a river nearby, so I imagine that it's going to be a rough next few days since it's supposed to keep raining until Thursday. http://www.rpin.org/rpinweb/ already lists a number of alerts. Here's hoping it doesn't cause too many problems - you can spot road closures, etc at http://www.metrokc.gov/kcdot/roads/roadalert/ . Particularly bad timing on an election day.

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Our uninvited Christmas tree(s)

Washington flood waters