Winds update

Apparently there was a microburst very near our house - someone close by lost their roof. So I guess we were lucky to only lose the cover we did.  Also, this is how excited the local news networks are about the summer weather here:

Storms in Tucson

I guess I can't call the thunderstorms wimpy in Tucson anymore.  This has been a pretty good monsoon season in general, but this afternoon we had a pretty crazy storm that came through.  I was working at my desk and happened to look out the window to a piece of wood flying by my window.  I walked outside and saw this:

This was our recently redone (by David and I) cover over the hot tub area of our pool.  I then noticed that a piece seemed to be missing, and located it across the street from our house:

That should be fun to clean up (in amongst the cacti).

Mt. Rainier

When David and I recently visited Mt. Rainier it was completely fogged in.  I was reduced to pointing in back of me and saying “That’s where the mountain is supposed to be – it’s usually very pretty.”  Given that I thought this video was very cool – too bad we couldn’t make a similar one:

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/donkjensen/5999259027

 

 

Bird sanctuary on the Oregon coast