Yesterday afternoon Matt called me to warn me that a storm was heading my way. Around 5 PM it started to rain hard and then the wind came. I don't think it has ever been that windy at my house.
The electricity went out soon afterward. Then the hail started. Branches came off the willow acacia in my front yard. Poor Ruby was so scared.
After the rain had mostly stopped I went outside. The backyard was a mess- everything torn apart.
Doug's shade structure for his truck was torn apart.Another huge branch on the willow acacia broke off and is stuck in the top of the tree.
This will be fun to deal with.And no electricity. From my house north to Congress, only about six houses. No clue why and with 5,000 houses out of electricity, not sure when it will be fixed. I had to bring the contents of my freezer to work.
Oh and some 20-year-old with poor aim shot at Orange Monster.
# posted by Homer : 12:36 PM
I started working for my company back on 10 July 1992. Today makes the start of the 33rd year.
One of my first projects was at Naco, working in the area of the soon-to-be-expanded border station. The ruins of the Copper Queen store lie between us and the border, which at that time was a three-strand fallen down barbed wire fence. Sometimes Mexican kids would come visit us. Today a hideous 20-ft-tall iron wall is present there.
In the photo we are recording tent stakes left behind when soldiers camped out next to the store during the Mexican Revolution on the 1910s. I was young, very skinny, and had hair.
Elizabeth, Homer, and Catherine. Jay took the photo.
I cancelled my subscription to the New York Times yesterday. Got tired of the anti-Biden bullshit. The newspaper really, really wants Trump to win so that they will have exciting stories to publish.
I was up in northwestern Arizona for a couple of days. Surveyed a section of road when it was 115 degrees outside. It was miserable. Later as I drove to a town called Baghdad to get something to drink it was 119.
My house is pretty warm. The kittens have a fan blowing air on them if they want. They are growing up fast.
Matt is off walking into the Grand Canyon. 12 miles in and a couple of days later 12 miles out. NO THANKS. My feet would kill me.
# posted by Homer : 2:25 PM
