Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Wacky weather

Winds with gusts as high as 114 kilometres an hour blew through the Fraser Valley and the Chilliwack River valley on Friday. It was wild and wacky for sure, but when power goes out on Friday night at 10:30 p.m. during the climax of a bad natural disaster movie—Dante's Peak—it actually is a good thing.

Our place here had the fences on both sides blown down, and a part of a neighbour's tree come down over their fence onto the road. As you can see here:



The wild weather of the end of last year, floods and snow in November and so on are continuing now. More crazy winds last night and snow again today. Not major snow, but enough to cause some problems for us valley folks who don't deal so well with the white stuff.

The winds on Friday night were so fast at one point in the night they blew out most of the clouds and a stream of low clouds were quickly blown across the low sky just in front of the mountains and the full(ish) moon. It was really beautiful and I took my camera out to take a few photos. But it was so windy it was hard to hold the tripod in place because it would blow the camera over. Amazing gusts.

Here is one shot I took though:



More weather expected tonight too . . . the wind and snow and general weirdness from above is almost wearing a little thin when it comes to news stories. But power continues to go out, trees continue to blow down, so, I guess we'll keep covering the "story."

No comments: