It was a doozy here, the heavy rain whipped up by really high winds — it drove the rain against the windows, which were rattling around like there was an earthquake. There were ominous noises outside, booms and bangs, which kept me looking out to see what was happening, but I never saw anything other than wind.
This morning, during a short, sunny lull in the weather, I wandered out to see what had happened. (I took a bunch of photos with my new cell phone, but they all turned out blurry. Why can’t these little camera snap a photo quickly enough to eliminate the blur of being held in the hand?)
The street is covered in the typical sort of debris, little branches and leaves everywhere. They were clogging the storm drains, so I moved them so that the flooded street corners could drain.
At the end of the street, one yard was completely buried under fallen branches from several trees. In fact, one tree has part of its trunk sheared off. It almost looked like there was a microburst just beside that one house.
My house is unscathed — a couple of gutter downspouts were blown off, but they weren’t really secured in any way to begin with.
More of the storm is coming… and with it, the migraines that I always experience when there is a sudden change in the weather and pressure changes.
But I’m patient, and soon the sunny, warm San Jose weather will return.
