If last night was any indication of what the fall and winter will be like living here on the mountainside, I think I am going to have to learn to button down the hatches a little better. Last night was a dark and stormy night, little rain, some lightning, but the wind that buffeted the windows, and sent all of the window blinds scattering back and forth kept me awake most of the night.
It was a hot and sticky day, and although the clouds visited it wasn’t with a breeze, and it never cooled down. Usually there is a bit of a break after dark, and we can open the windows and get a breeze going. Not so last night, it was close, congested and airless all day, and night.
Until around 2 am, and then the wind broke loose from the trees. Nearly soundless until it gathered enough force to blow it’s ferocious breath through our open windows. Lifting the blinds in all the rooms, and scattering papers. I couldn’t sleep after the wind set off the security lights, the movement tripping them to stay on almost continuously all night. Prowling around the house I shut windows against the wind, and peered through curtains into a suddenly daylight bright yard lit by security lights.
If this is a summer storm, just think of the damage the winter will be able to do. Sleepy…