In case you're interested, yes, I survived last night's storm. In fact, I stood outside watching the storm approach with a neighbor and my son until the rain started. With straight line winds up to 80 mph -- yes, that's hurricane force -- and lots of lightning, it was a storm of Biblical proportions. Watching it approach on radar was interesting as well, because the storm covered just the St. Louis metropolitan region, no more no less.
We had a lot of leaves and small branches down, but nothing major, and no power loss. The A/C compressor did trip it's circuit breaker, which I didn't figure out until this morning, but we are certainly more fortunate than a lot of others - half a million others that is, like my parents, who are without power. The electric company, Ameren UE has run up the white flag and asked for help from anywhere. Did I mention they are predicting 102 today?
