9:24am
Greetings and welcome!
It ended up getting pretty windy later last night. A look out the front & back door shows no damage, no branches down, and plenty of color still in the leaves.
We did lose power last night, I’d guess at about midnight. It only took a few minutes to get the generator going, and the trip for generator gas yesterday afternoon paid off, sort of. By the time that the first tank of gas was burned the lights came back on.
The news reported at one point that an estimated 40,000 people lost power. A quick check shows that there are still about 26,000 people out, with about half around Door County. They show about 4,500 out in the Wausaukee and Waubeno areas as of 9am.
The best that I could tell from the morning news was that we saw 35-40mph gusts. Door County, Green Bay, and Algoma all reported gusts in the high 60 mph range.
The TV last night was advising people to stay off of the big bridge in Green Bay, and if you had to go on it they were telling you to slow down. I was once on that bridge when it was high winds, and I saw a small meat truck ahead of me go up onto two wheels and almost tip over. It was pretty close.
So far the worst of the storm around here was losing cell phone service and my cellular based Internet overnight. The cellular service went dead about 10 minutes after the power went out, and came back up at about 8 am.
That left me wondering about the wisdom of getting rid of my land line in favor of the cell phone. So far it has been ok, but had there been an emergency last night I would have been out of touch for 8 hours. That would be bad if a guy like me that lives alone had a medical problem.
Anyway, so far it does not look like there is a lot of storm damage right around the house. I will be going for a ride after breakfast to see what the rest of the area looks like.
RJB