On Monday night the winds picked up to hurricane force levels, up to 99 MPH, though the early morning hours. Trees were uprooted, power outages abounded, semis were toppled on the freeway, and there was even one death reported.
I was scheduled to work at home on Tuesday, so I didn't have to go out into the storm. One of my friends was driving to work and a piece of metal flew through the air, ripping off the mirror on the driver's side of her car, scraping the door handle, and damaging the front driver's side quarter panel. Another of my friends drove past the office and shared a video of many trees that were uprooted, one of which had fallen on the building. These were big trees, too, over 20 years old. The power was out at the office on Tuesday. It was still out this morning, so I didn't go into the office. Power was restored today, but the servers for the computers were still down. I worked from home, but wasn't able to get a lot done since all of my files are on those servers.
Today was a lot more calm and a little warmer. Oh, I didn't mention that Tuesday was cold! The temperature on Sunday and Monday was in the 90s; yesterday the high was in the mid-50s. I was wearing sweats and a long sleeve shirt. I had to turn on the heater in the house this morning. I'm thankful that I was able to do so since so many people, still over 80K, are without power.
Over here on the west side of the valley, I didn't see much damage. I think we lost a shingle or two from the roof, but I haven't seen any downed trees around the neighborhood. Like I said, we had power and internet the whole time. On the east side of the city and north of Salt Lake seems to be where most of the damage happened.
This has been the damnedest year, hasn't it?
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I agree, it's been weird in so many ways. Stay safe!
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