I'll Huff and I'll Puff and I'll Blow Your House Down......

WOW - what a wild weather night!

The weather reports yesterday  morning talked about high wind advisories close to Lake Michigan, but as the day went on I thought they were prob'ly incorrect as we had some rain but nothing like they were predicting for wind gusts.  

When I left Downtown Milwaukee late yesterday afternoon and headed West to drop some things at my son's apartment before heading to an evening class in Oak Creek, there was a little wind, but nothing like what people thought there would be.  My son even mentioned that he was surprised it was as calm as it was.  However, as I headed East toward Oak Creek the wind got stronger, the rain got harder and I turned the windshield wipers to the highest setting - it was even difficult walking up the hill to the building when I arrived at the Oak Creek campus. When I headed home a few hours later, it was still raining but the wind had died down a little, and during the night I woke up several times to the wind howling and the windows shaking.  

We live fairly close to the Lake, so we're use to lake effect snow and cooler temperatures in the Spring and Summer months, but have never encountered major winds and wind gusts until this year.  This is the second time in a couple of months that areas right off of Lake Michigan encountered this type of weather and we were fortunate with this storm that we did not lose power - during the summer when we had major wind gusts off of the lake, we were without electricity for almost 24 hours. 

When watching the news reports on the local morning news, it was amazing to see tipped over and submerged boats at a nearby yacht club, and the huge waves crashing into the breakwater and shoreline.  In looking out at our yard, we don't appear to have suffered too much damage.  Lots of twigs and  a few larger branches laying on the driveway and grass, but no trees or large limbs to have to deal with.  Looks like my mission for the weekend will be "twig and branch patrol".....at least the rain is suppose to have moved out and warmer temperatures are predicted so it shouldn't be too uncomfortable being outside cleaning up the storm damage.