The high winds on the Planet Ann Arbor started at about six AM and have lasted all day. We got porterized at Dexter’s Pub tonight and the lights flashed a few times but we’re guessing they had a generator going because we never totally lost power. Arriving home at The Landfill, it was apparent we’d had a power outage here too. I just fixed Gertrude’s flashing clock and I will bang my head against the LED light colors tomorrow. Grrrr. I do NOT want to set up a goddamn ACCOUNT.

I don’t get toooo worried about wind but we live in a neighborhood with lots of tall trees and twice, we’ve had a tree fall on our house. In the first instance, a thunderstorm blew in and the GG LOVES thunderstorms. They make him sleep. But. Just as he was settling in to sleep, a HUGE wind came through and there was a huge crashing noise. The top third (or whatever) of the tree just outside our house had fallen over and onto our house.

The then teenage beach urchins immediately came out of their bedrooms. What the heck just happened? We all assessed our levels of shock for a few minutes and then we remembered the mini-pets in their cages in the back room. Guinea pig and Izzy the rat. Yikes. They were okay. I don’t remember Izzy being all that fazed but Piglet was kind of a dishrag until he sat in his owner’s lap for a while.

This happened at two or three in the morning. I didn’t really get back to sleep that night. I actually got onto my strawberry iMac and did some young actors guild work. The GG did go back to sleep but he was up at six AM calling tree companies to free the POC, a beautiful but crappy Island Teal Chrysler mini-van that $50 and $100 dollared us to death. I was hoping this incident would total the POC but it didn’t. Sigh. The next car we bought was Japanese and we have never looked back. Note that some (but not all) of our Japanese vee-hickles were built in the USA or Canada.

The second time a tree fell on our house no one was home and I’ll talk about that some other day,

So I heard a few things hit the roof today but not a whole tree. We still have high winds but they are supposed to diminish by morning. I’m looking forward to that.

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