We've had a couple of pretty big wind and rain storms since we've been back in the northwest. One last month and one yesterday. Both were very powerful with wind gusts between 60 - 100 mph. Lots of downed trees, damaged roofs and cars and tens of thousands of folks without power. Not pretty, but pretty typical for fall in the great northwest.
All in all we've faired pretty well. We had a brief, nanoseconds really, power outage with the first storm and none at all yesterday so that made it nice for us even while many of those around us were without power for a time. All should be back on tonight thankfully.
We did have a whole weekend without heat though. Couple of weeks back our furnace up and quit and by the time we left a message for the landlords and they got back to us it was too late to get anyone to come out. Naturally, this happened on a Friday afternoon so the whole weekend we had no furnace. Not a problem in Mexico, neither of our houses there even had furnaces and they aren't needed in that climate. Needless to say, even with the landlords coming by with a little space heater it was one CHILLY weekend!! But bright and early Monday morning the repair guy came out and the culprit was a small chip on the motherboard of the furnace...it just up and died. The landlords were not thrilled because their five year warranty on the furnace expired in July so they had to pay for the repair. But were were happy and toasty in no time!! We are thankful it was something simple and that they had the parts on hand. It may not be winter here yet but man it can get cold in the house with no heat!!
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