Windblown

Perhaps it's in poor taste to mention our windy day when people elsewhere are still mucking out after a hurricane, but for us, we had quite the blustery day. At one point when I checked the weather, we had 45 MPH winds.

Mike reported that a friend of his on the other side of the neighborhood had a tree down, so I had to go check that out:



The people up the road from them had a good chunk of tree fall as well:



I'm afraid that those shots make our own "damage" look pretty paltry:



Mike was having his first official driving lesson in the middle of this storm. He has driven a lot with me and with Fred, but we wanted to have him get some real training by somebody who knows what he's doing. When the teacher came to pick Mike up, I asked if maybe we should cancel because of the wind, but he said no, Mike needs to learn in all sorts of conditions anyway. That made sense, so they went on with it.

Mike reported back that it was definitely worthwhile. This fellow had him driving down around E'town where there were traffic lights out and tree limbs down all over the place. He said he did get a little nervous when the teacher whipped out his cell phone and started canceling the rest of his lessons for the day because "it's too dangerous to be on the road right now." But he lived through it and got some good experience, and I didn't get to share that experience, so everybody is happy. Now if we can order up torrential rains for his lesson next Sunday and maybe a blizzard and total solar eclipse for the following one, he'll have gotten to practice in just about every stressful driving condition imaginable before he goes to take his driving test in Florida in October!