[tevake]

I got back to my place just after the last of twilight last night. There was a lot of damage to be seen starting about 75 miles north of my area, and it got worse the closer I got so it may have been a good thing that I ran out of daylight just a bit before driving into the area where Im living.
The dirt road going from the highway about 1/2 mile into my place is covered with debris shredded vegetation, downed branches, some trees down but not across the road. At my place the ground is covered with the same shredded vegetation and branches. Both structures are ok, as is the 911 left tucked In the shop.

There is one small tree down in the back corner near where we had a much bigger tree taken down just last week. Another small tree back there is pretty tweaked and may need to come down too, but these are trees that are small enough and in a location that I can deal with myself.

So all in all we did dodge a bullit, but there is a solid week of cleanup ahead of me.
I got a good start today, started a fire early and kept it going all day from yard debris.
Did a walk along the road from the highway and got a lot of the branches pulled off the road. Trying to make it easy for the elec power crews to get into the area to get our power back on. There is power in most of Ebro just not in this end.

There must have been 40 power company trucks staged at the dog track parking lot last night. We did have a drone fly overhead a few times this afternoon, so It's looking like they may get to us fairly soon.

My Verizon cell phone got signal at midday today. So things are coming back together around here anyway.

Just a little to the east, say 10/15 miles the situation is much more challenging from what Im hearing and seeing on the news. Just that distance makes a big difference in the degree of damage to structures and even more trees.

Its a blessing to be in my motorhome right now, built in generator, lots of battery capacity, full water tank and fuel tank, propane water heater and fridge and stove.
Pretty comfortable for the circumstances.

It will be nice to get the power back on to get the well going again.
And to quiet the chorus of generators going full time all around the neighborhood.

So thats the update from very near but luckily not quite in the path of the beast.

Cheers Richard