“The way of the Wind is a strange, wild way.”
Ingram Crocker
I had a few frantic moments this week worrying about the house.
On Wednesday, January 9th a major windstorm blew through Ontario as the warm front that gave us weather 5-10° C above freezing for most of the week, clashed with a cold front coming in from the west.
In Prescott, two roofs were stripped off heritage buildings in the downtown core, while on the Johnstown-Ogdensburg bridge to the U.S. (or perhaps the Odgensburg – Johnstown Bridge to Canada?), an empty tractor trailer crossing the bridge was blown over, crushing a section of railing and knocking a light standard into the St. Lawrence below.
The story actually made the CBC, the Ottawa Citizen and the A-Channel news:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/01/09/weather-ontario.html
In Ottawa, the winds picked up sharply around 8 A.M., blowing the paper and cardboard recycling all around the neighbourhood making a general mess everywhere. I came home to find roof shingles on the front lawn and driveway, but that is another story.
After seeing the news stories, I had visions of the wind knocking down some more Manitoba maples around the property or possibly the big pine on the front of the house and possibly the worse-for-wear brick chimney over the summer kitchen.
Saturday morning saw me driving down to the house with a great deal of trepidation, wondering how I would deal with the wrath of this windstorm. That is, how much would the tree service cost this time? Fortunately as I drove by the house on the highway, not a single tree was down or damaged. As I pulled into the driveway, I let out a big sigh of relief. There were a lot of small branches on the lawn and the pine tree lost a huge amount of needles yet again. Most surprising was that there is almost no snow left from December’s record setting snows.
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