I’ve hear nothing about Erika, other than something about flooding as I was listening to the radio on the way home. Apparently, this storm we had up here was a big one. I thought nothing of it Saturday; I’d seen worse. Much worse. But the radio said half a million people were without power at one point. Most of them got their power back very quickly. Though the storm seemed fairly tame to me at the time, I guess with the damage being so widespread it took a long time to get to all of the outages.
It was particularly windy, and it’s been dry, so trees got a little brittle.
I didn’t think it was particularly windy up here. But then, I lived in the Mojave Desert for 11 years. In any case, it wasn’t as windy as I have seen it up here. But yeah, it’s been very dry.
One thing I noticed is that the cedars seemed to have fared well. I see lots of maple debris. There are other trees that dropped a lot of limbs or snapped. I’m not sure what they are. Could be oak, could be birch, could be both. Some sort of broad-leaf tree anyway.
My mom lives just south of Alger. We had several trees down during the storm, almost all of them Cottonwoods. The power stayed on. It flickered, but persevered. I was in Sedro Woolley on Saturday, and 3/4th of the town was without power. I don’t think it came back til Sunday afternoon.