We had a wind storm!

Our Ontario Hydro posts outages. This was after the Sunday storm.


As I wrote this (Monday, 2:30 p.m.), Ontario Hydro reported:

Crews restored power to 54,000 customers since yesterday’s storm & 6,600 remain without power. Visit our app for the latest updates #ONstorm pic.twitter.com/enRMuOJJPO

— Hydro One (@HydroOne) October 16, 2017

Toronto was hit pretty hard.

UPDATED: Many will be without power overnight, Hydro One says, citing 'significant damage' to distribution system https://t.co/Ck9QTyhsTq pic.twitter.com/pqWqHbqixq

— CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto) October 16, 2017

We didn't have much damage. Easily tidied. It was a nice vase, though! The fish gravel has some glass in it. Dang. It was supposed to anchor it all. I should have known.


Just found a photo of my lovely vase!

Before: the sumac are barely hanging in. The drought of 2012 nearly did them in. Also the previous owners used to cut the field beside it.

After: timber!
I cut it apart, as it was too heavy to lift, and chucked it onto the grasses behind it.

You can see the odd tree down. My rainbow wind sock konked over.

The forest didn't do so badly. The forest has integrity, thick and deep, and only a few went over. Mostly it was the dead elms.



This was during. I just loved the skies.
windy weather from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.