{"id":5212,"date":"2013-09-16T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2013-09-16T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T19:35:08","slug":"big-windstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/big-windstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Big windstorm&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We normally watch Hulu or Netflix in the evenings&#8230;been watching Tree with Deep Roots (24 episodes) on Hulu, now Revenge on Netflix&#8212;and that means we don&#8217;t get the weather warnings. But I&#8217;d left my telly on in my room, and heard the beep\/buzz. So at next episode break, about 10 min on, I got up and used Tivo to roll back and check what had come on.<\/p>\n<p>Yikes! Major gust front coming our way with 60 MPH winds, large hail, and lightning&#8212;so I hied me out to batten down the pond, rescue the bag of fishfood, and get anything loose weighed down.<\/p>\n<p>Just 5 minutes after I got in, the front hit&#8230;not with hail, but dust. The air turned surreal red in the streetlights (we&#8217;re on a 4 lot block, so we have two in sight) and stuff blowing, garbage cans gone orbital, just real nasty. Some thunder, distant, some lightning. No hail.<\/p>\n<p>This morning we had one garbage can overturned (the compost one, which didn&#8217;t open: la!) and one patio chair turned over. But that was it.<\/p>\n<p>Quite, quite a night! I&#8217;ve seen downbursts, where a rotation instead of bringing a tornado just dives for the ground, and that&#8217;s what this was like: didn&#8217;t last long, but the wind was fierce, and it carried half of middle Washington potato fields as dust&#8230;our eyes were really stinging this morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We normally watch Hulu or Netflix in the evenings&#8230;been watching Tree with Deep Roots (24 episodes) on Hulu, now Revenge on Netflix&#8212;and that means we don&#8217;t get the weather warnings. But I&#8217;d left my telly on in my room, and heard the beep\/buzz. So at next episode break, about 10 min on, I got up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}