Well, on the way home I saw a HUGE tree that collapsed onto a house along 12th ave between fraser just before kingsway. The police and city workers had both of the lanes closed going towards kingsway except for one going each way on the other side of the street. As the tree had pulled out from its roots when it toppled pulling up half the lane and the green space with part of the sidewalk. Two houses look affected. Myself and my carpool buddy laughed, talk about Karma coming up...
When I got to the way down towards my house many branches had fallen and one tree along the block.
However, Im now soaked. We have one of those temporary/permanent tarp garages covering the 21 foot skiboat that my brother and I share.. You guessed it the whole thing had torn or shifted and was flapping. I was just down there tying everything togehter with strong ropes and putting stay ropes to keep the structure from moving or flexing... Then the leg on one end that I was just tying whipped out with a big gust of wind pulling one of the roof structure pieces and cracked the side of the window on my boat! It also smacked the gunnel side right below the window putting those fibreglass spider cracks into the newer gelcoat I had put on during the summer.
EDIT: I just went and looked again after relaxing and being inside for a while. The window looked cracked from beside it on the ground but when I went into the boat, it had knocked the window OUT of the aluminum window siding. Hard to explain. It is a little cracked, but if I put it back into the slider and reseal it with some window adhesive it'll be good as new. <cooler tempered head talking>
Grr. I have secured it ok now, but left the sides flapping to keep the wind from catching it.. Im hoping our house insurance will cover the boat as we took the insurance off the boat/trailer mid october; due to it being a nice weather boat and we couldnt see using it during the winter, lol.
Hope its better where you all are, or you are having abetter day and wind/rain experience
