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But the wind is blowing so hard I can't believe I'm going to keep electricity here. I can't believe there will be one thing left when it finally stops. So. I gotta tell you now, before the wind blows me into the next life, that
Even if I hate your guts.
I love you so much my insides try to turn into a hot bowl of light whenever I let it cross my mind. I don't know how we got here. No. Really. I don't know. I have a bunch of good guesses. If we make it into next week still being this stupid, it will be time to double down on trying to make them work....
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No exaggeration. Actually understatement.
REDWOOD COAST-No. Really. It's at least this bad.
800 PM PST WED DEC 19 2012
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM THURSDAY...
* LOCATIONS...COASTAL AREAS OF DEL NORTE AND HUMBOLDT COUNTIES.
* WINDS...SUSTAINED 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS 45 TO 55 MPH.
LOCALLY HIGHER GUSTS POSSIBLE NEAR EXPOSED HEADLANDS AND
COASTAL BLUFFS.
* HIGHWAYS IMPACTED...101...299...199...AND 36.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
STRONG WINDS CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH
PROFILE VEHICLES. TIE DOWN OR BRING IN ITEMS THAT COULD BE BLOWN
AWAY BY THE WIND. BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE POWER OUTAGES.
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It's coming from a direction that almost never troubles us around here. Different things are rattling and sucking. I'm hoping the trees are happy to get a break from the stress on the usual places... not caught flat-footed without enough bend in this direction.
You know I can't play Joe Bonamassa except clear up to eleven, and the wind was making noise louder than that. Lights have blinked hard twice tonight, and I just lit a candle not to get left in the blackness in a bad spot. No kidding. This shit is heavy.
Just remember what I told you.
I might get blown off the world tonight and so you need to remember it.
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Just put a drop of my sacred Kush essential oil, heavy to the bergamot, in the hot candle wax. I hope this gets good. Gotta smell nice for the buddhas.
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It's two hours later now, and I'm freaking about how my front door cracks and bends with the wind whistling—literally whistling loudly, like Gene Kelly, or a train—and how odd it is this candle isn't blowing out, even though, intellectually, I know it shouldn't.
I was washing my dishes, getting things done I might not want undone when the power goes out, and the wind was blowing so hard I started to worry something could blow through the window and smack me in the face.
Now I'm tuned to the radar online and I can see there's a fat blob of rain trying to get here, but these gusts keep blowing it north of me every time the rain almost gets to my house. Really. These hurricane force gusts can be seen from right here at my fire door laid across two filing cabinets blowing the radar blobs north every few moments.
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This may be mere optimism, but, it seems that at the stroke of six ayem the severity of the wind got less. Now there's some rain. It's coming in tentative sheets and scattered test splats. The wind keeps making as if to get up and blow our heads off, but then doesn't....
There were some darn alarming rumbles audible under all that howling and shhhhing and whistling. I could hear them because they were so much lower on the range. They might've been very distant but huge thunder, but, well, they sounded like maybe that wasn't what they were at all.
Anyway. It sounds and feels these last few minutes as though Gaia is trying to pull herself back together. I guess we're gonna see.
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