December 2007 Storm

Gusts of 147 mph recorded! We were without power & phones for 6 days. As of Dec 08 there are still
many families in Clatsop County who are without power. We were very, very fortunate the damage
wasn't considerably more. I will take more pictures later - These are all I could get today.

Friendly request: Please remember to donate to your local Red Cross, Food Banks and Emergency Services.
You never know when you'll need them.


Here's the tree next to the house. I don't remember if it's a Cherry or not. It has bark similar to a stone fruit tree.		It's straight for a good ~30'. This monster was kind enough to fall parallel to the house rather than 90 degrees to the right into Zack's room		It was hard to take a picture of my own hand to give scale to the tree!


This poor Weeping Willow has lost parts over the years and has sheltered the one left standing.		This is a large branch off a very old, and very large, decorative Pine. The fence posts in the background are 8' apart.


Thankfully the damage was limited on this barn. I had to put a tarp at the end to protect the older does.		The South wall of the milking barn. All the windows and the near half of the wall were blown in.		Roof and bracing damage. Again, fortunate that only two panels here will need to be replace. Others that were stacked for a "new" barn got blown all over the place.


Some of these chunks of Black Walnut are from the previous storm.		Junior is helping me show the size of this larger branch.		This is the branch I "saved" in the hopes it could be turned on a lathe. There are several good straight sections with few branches.


More Walnut branches and the remnants of the barn by the orchard.		Dibs and storm debris with damaged fence. In the distance you can see flood water in a neighbor's pasture. The dike/RR tracks failed in a storm in 2005 and there's a struggle going on to see who is responsible for repairs since the Dike Districts have been defunct for around 40 years.		That was some wind!!! It's a good thing this barn was uninhabited at the time.


One of our more productive apple trees. This one had HUGE red apples.		I didn't see this until I took the pictures! This is (was!) the bucks' Summer paddock. Dang! Two more panels lost.		One of my two favorite apple trees. These red & yellow striped apples were absolutely fabulous (sweet/tart and very juicy). Losing this tree is dreadful!


The last of the windfalls from this tree. I wish I hadn't wasted a single one! Hopefully I'll be able to do some grafts before the tree will need to be removed.		It's leaning up against a third tree (which didn't have nearly as nice apples!)		Wish I had a better camera... this would have been a really good picture of Junior jumping up to help me show the size of this tree. He's jumping up abut 3'. Does apple make good turning wood? I will have to save LOTS for smoking too.


This little Maple was next to the upper garden.		My battery was dying on the camera so I took these last two quickly. This is the broken end of the tree that took out the buck pen. Not sure what this tree is.		Here's the "stump" left over. It snapped clean off about 15' above the ground!