Riding the Storm Out

Last nights storm was a storm to remember. I was going out to get dinner for us, and a section of the fence, and one of the large palo verde trees at the end of the driveway was down. There aren’t many things that I like better than hammering a fence together in the wind, cold rain, and thunder, it brings out the patience in my personality! Just ask my wife, she’ll verify that.


We moved our vehicles around so that I could get to work in the morning, parking one at the neighbors, and backing my truck up against the fence to help hold the patch job. After that we settled in to a nice cozy fire and movie. Being attuned to weather as well as I am, I took a few looks around the back to make sure everything was still there. One look out in the driveway showed that a second palo verde tree had fallen victim to the winds. Pruning at its best.

At one point around 9:00pm or so, the wind was screaming, rain was torrential, and there was a tornado warning about 5 miles northeast of us. It was a great night to be cuddled with my wife and Hobie.