Antartic blast ends the CC Summer

It is Wednesday here.  On Monday evening we were watching the local weather and saw them describe the pattern for the coming 48+ hours.  Sorta like a Polar Vortex that's now part of the North American weather vocabulary, we are getting its Antarctic ugly twin here in CC--the problem is, it's freakin' summer, not mid-winter!

Overnight Monday into Tuesday the sucker set in with torrential rain and winds in the 50-60 mph range--steady, not gusts.  The gusts in the Port Hills have been measured at over 110 mph.  It has been raining and blowing since then--lots of street flooding, but fortunately few trees down and few power outages, so far. Temps have been running around 50 degrees, with a wind chill of around 30.

The worst of it for us was discovering yesterday that we did not have any wine in the apartment, as Happy Hour approached.  Recognizing that Terry has done all of the laundry, 90% of the cooking, and 95% of the dish cleaning, Mike did the right thing and bundled up for the half-mile walk to the nearest grocery store to get wine and the pasta that we needed for dinner.  He came back soaked and shivering, but with wine in hand.  To set the record straight, Mike has done all of the driving on our tours--from the wrong side of the car and on some white-knuckler roads.  So, he's not been a total slacker.

 It's now starting to taper off (2pm on Wednesday) but still cold, rainy, and windy.  And, guess what?  We are out of wine again, so it might be a repeat trek for Mike to the store.  The conditions are not quite as bad as last evening, but this all does beg the question of why he didn't stock up a bit more yesterday.

Mike and Terry