On Monday, it rained all day. It was the best kind of rain: gentle and steady, and much welcome after months without any moisture to speak of.In the evening, a fierce wind came up. It howled like we've never heard. Overnight, the temperature dropped and the rain turned to snow.
The storm filled up our stock pond.
And the wind felled a pretty good sized tree near our driveway. It also knocked out our power. We later learned that our outage was just one of many. The storm had created wide-spread outages all over the state.
In Peeples Valley, in front of the historic schoolhouse, the wind had also knocked down this power line. We wondered if that was what affected us.
Yarnell was mostly deserted, with only a few cars on the road. All of the businesses, as far as we could tell, were closed up and dark.
3 comments:
Yay!, rain and snow- just what the backcountry needs.
Any plans of deepening the pond, lining it, and stocking it w/ a few fish?
Your cow commentary was funny.
Thanks! No, no plans to expand or stock the stock pond. To say it's seasonal would be generous. Trying to make it year-round, nevermind keeping it full of fish, sounds like a bigger job than we'd want to take on.
Yeah, I suppose that would be putting the cart before the horse.
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