[or-roots] My Columbus Day Story

[dgoodma02 at comcast.net]

At the time of the STORM we lived in Roy Washington on an acre of forest (Roy is a little Red Neck Town about 20 miles from Olympia).  I was at Work at the Washington State Dept of Ecology, just sitting down to a large meeting.  The wind began to pick up and then the big Circuit breakers outside our Building blew out, and we had no power, so we were sent home from work for the day.
I got in my car and headed home through a pretty heavy forest and there was some windfall but not much 'till I got near our home and saw a couple of big trees had come down across the road and someone had already cut them up an pulled them of the road.
I just drove on home.  My wife met me a the door to the house and said she had never been so scarred in her life.  She told me that the big Doug firs around our hous had been swishing and bent nearly to the ground and that she thought that they would fall on our house.
After the storm we checked our property and found that none of the nearly 100 trees on our property had fallen!  Whew!
We were told by the County (Pierce) that we could stack all the windfall from our property on the side of the road and that the County would pick it up.
We took my son-inlaw's pick up and began hauling windfall down to the road.  It took us 3 days and 17 truck loads to get it all down to the road and pile it up.
We were also without Electric power for about 10 days, but thank goodness we had a fine wood stove and plenty of wood.  We lived by Kerosene Lanterns for that time and "Cabin feever" really sat in. Fortunately we had a community well in our area so we had water and we used a generator some.  We could cook on our wood stove so  all in all it was and adventure with no one hurt. Power finally came back on and life returned to normal.
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Bob Goodman 
USAF Retired 
University Place, Washington
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