Cool Evening

Things here at the Lodge are cool this evening.

It is 60 degrees out there and great sleeping weather.

We have been quiet as we have been surveying the city and our friends situations after the amazing Tuesday night frontal wall that ripped through the city.

A good hour and nearly a half ahead of time we could see far off reflections of lightning well before anything was here.
The intensity might have tipped us off, but it didn't.

Interestingly, the storm really wasn't about rain.
Yes, there was 0.31" in that short hit, but more than anything it was those incredible winds.

Due to the heat and humidity we had every door, window, and opening full and wide as the wall of ferocious winds swung down.
It was simply incredible.
A whiles into that the rains began in earnest and we closed things up a little, but soon enough the rains eased off and just the winds persisted as the primary characteristic of the storm.

After it passed I went over to the barometer and expected some wild reading, but no.
It registered a fairly typical nice day reading and it was guessing for sun.

The whole experience was wild.

We counted our blessings that the only tree to come down around us was an ill one far from the house.
Driving around the next day we began to get a real sense of just how intense those winds were.
Trees, and limbs were down on nearly every street.
Some places were nailed hard.
A friend lost his roof (not literally as it still rests up there, but he might as well have structurally as it is ripped free and is toast.)

And so we were in observing mode.

Wasn't that an incredible storm?
Thank God no one seems to have been killed locally.