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Well, after having spent days refurbishing my store, listing a whole lot of new items, and finally getting some interest, I will now have to put my store "on vacation" for a few days, thanks to Hurricane Arthur.
This is expected to be a really nasty event, likely Category 1, passing directly over Nova Scotia. At the moment it's dead calm on the ground, but bands of high, dark clouds are already passing overhead. My roses are just out in bloom and the veggie garden is burgeoning -- they'll probably all be shredded by noon tomorrow. 
If it ain't one thing...
We'll see by this time tomorrow - they didn't think Juan was going to be too bad either...
@msmaggie060 wrote:
Rose, hopefully all will be okay. Let us know how you and your roses are.
Well, we're on the other side of the storm -- 4 days with no power, no water, no internet, no phone, no contact with the outside world. There were apparently over 200,000 people without power at one point just after the storm, most no doubt the result of falling trees. The hydro just came on an hour ago (finally!).
My roses turned out to be the least of our worries. Eight magnificent mature trees along the edge of our property - each about 4 or 5 feet around at the base and about 60 feet tall - toppled like dominos one after the other during the storm. It was a rather sad and sickening sight to watch, but fortunately no one was injured. The last, and biggest, missed crashing into our neighbour's house by about 2 feet. I've never seen a sight like it in my life.
Arthur stalled on Saturday over our area, S.W. Nova Scotia, which was near the centre of the storm. They had predicted it would be moving faster, and would probably have caused a lot less damage if it had. It blew steadily for nearly 20 hours with pelting rain and gusts of around 100kph. Since the soil was already so soaked and the trees in full leaf, it was just too much for some of them. I was just hoping our magnificent chestnut tree in the front wouldn't go down, and it didn't -- neither, luckily, did our 200-year-old house!
We haven't had any idea what was going on in the rest of the province because we had no access to news. CBC FM is the only clear station we can get on a transistor radio here, and they don't seem to believe in complete news reporting on the hour.
I was worried about my eBay store though - who knows what can go on in 4 days of blackout? Fortunately I had put it on vacation mode until today, and also fortunately my most important sale involved a very slow payer -- for once an advantage!
I've attached a photo below of the downed trees (taken after the storm). It's clear in this picture how close that last tree got to the neighbour's house - you can just see the roof beyond the foliage. Those trees, believe me, are a lot bigger than they appear in this photo - it's going to be a long, massive clean-up job. I'm sure many other people in the area have the same sort of damage to clean up. So strange -- the day prior was a beautiful, clear, sunny summer day, and so was the day after. You'd never guess if you had just landed in the area that there had been a frightening storm the day before.
Now Manitoba is a much worse situation. I really feel for all those people facing the inevitable.
