The Storm of '06
I'm sure that's what it will become known as.
Last night we had a storm. A rather large storm, and unexpected. Apparently part of a storm in Chicago suddenly split off, and headed down the Mississippi River, and the heat and humidity caused it to gain strength as it came. 80 mile-an-hour winds caused lots of damage, and part of the roof of one of the airport buildings tore off and landed on I-70, just in time for it to be blocking our way home last night.
KWMU reports that Ameren UE had 450,000 customers out, their largest outage in the 100+ year history of the company. We got home to find cones blocking off the road right outside our house, so we parked up, and walked there, wondering what was up. Two trees of a neighbour had falled across the road, narrowly missing our next-door neighbour's vehicle, and pulling down an electricity cable as it did so.
Here are some pictures from just by our house, this morning.
As of right now, we appear to be still be without power (I called home and the answering machine isn't picking up), so goodness knows what the freezer will be like. Oh. And today is the hottest day of the year so far. 101° F / 38° C (with a heat index of 115° F / 46° C). Marvellous.
So I'm camping out, keeping cool, in a local cafe that has power, aircon, and WiFi.
I'm sure I'll update and post more pics later.
Last night we had a storm. A rather large storm, and unexpected. Apparently part of a storm in Chicago suddenly split off, and headed down the Mississippi River, and the heat and humidity caused it to gain strength as it came. 80 mile-an-hour winds caused lots of damage, and part of the roof of one of the airport buildings tore off and landed on I-70, just in time for it to be blocking our way home last night.
KWMU reports that Ameren UE had 450,000 customers out, their largest outage in the 100+ year history of the company. We got home to find cones blocking off the road right outside our house, so we parked up, and walked there, wondering what was up. Two trees of a neighbour had falled across the road, narrowly missing our next-door neighbour's vehicle, and pulling down an electricity cable as it did so.
Here are some pictures from just by our house, this morning.
As of right now, we appear to be still be without power (I called home and the answering machine isn't picking up), so goodness knows what the freezer will be like. Oh. And today is the hottest day of the year so far. 101° F / 38° C (with a heat index of 115° F / 46° C). Marvellous.
So I'm camping out, keeping cool, in a local cafe that has power, aircon, and WiFi.
I'm sure I'll update and post more pics later.
posted by Timotab @ 2:19 PM
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