When the storm breaks
Dec. 15th, 2006 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhienellethWell, in my part of Oregon (and, I believe, up into Washington), we had a good sized storm hit last night. Lots of rain, 60mph winds, causing lots of damage in the way of felled trees and branches, and mass power outages. We lost power around 9pm, and didn't get it back until 4am this morning. Our yard looks like a war zone of fallen limbs and broken branches.
I was writing last night when the power went, but lucky for me, Word's autosave and document recovery feature seems to have saved it all. Corvallis schools are completely shut down today, but of course, Lebanon was running, so Mark still had to go to work. Me? Pffft. My work doesn't shut down, ever. The Big Boss decides these things by a simple method - if he can make it in to work in his massive 4x4 SUV, then everyone else is expected to make it in as well. Not as applicable in wind storms as on ice, but still how he makes his decisions.
I'm thinking the three hikers missing on Mt. Hood for the past ten days are not going to be found alive. I really hope they are, but they've been trying to find them in severe storm conditions for days (they've been missing for 10 days, I think) and the last time the searchers had any indication of life was on Tuesday when they found a cell signal. The news has been saying that even if they can pinpoint their location, they (the searchers) have no idea how they'll be able to reach them in these conditions. They had to break off the search yesterday due to the storm (100mph winds + snow and ice on the mountain). The danger of an avalanche is also apparently huge.
One of the guys here at work is a climber who's climbed Hood several times, and he expressed amazement and disbelief yesterday, when discussing the situation. Apparently, he and his son only climb the mountain in the spring, never in the winter (for reasons of 'Hood is always hit with storms'), and he said the side the out-of-state hikers went up (the north side) is absolutely the worst for winter storms. So, any prayers you have for those three missing men and their families would be appreciated. This is the season for miracles, and it would wonderful for those men and their families if, when the search attempts can resume (they're thinking Saturday at this point) they can be found holed up in some snow cave, alive.
I was writing last night when the power went, but lucky for me, Word's autosave and document recovery feature seems to have saved it all. Corvallis schools are completely shut down today, but of course, Lebanon was running, so Mark still had to go to work. Me? Pffft. My work doesn't shut down, ever. The Big Boss decides these things by a simple method - if he can make it in to work in his massive 4x4 SUV, then everyone else is expected to make it in as well. Not as applicable in wind storms as on ice, but still how he makes his decisions.
I'm thinking the three hikers missing on Mt. Hood for the past ten days are not going to be found alive. I really hope they are, but they've been trying to find them in severe storm conditions for days (they've been missing for 10 days, I think) and the last time the searchers had any indication of life was on Tuesday when they found a cell signal. The news has been saying that even if they can pinpoint their location, they (the searchers) have no idea how they'll be able to reach them in these conditions. They had to break off the search yesterday due to the storm (100mph winds + snow and ice on the mountain). The danger of an avalanche is also apparently huge.
One of the guys here at work is a climber who's climbed Hood several times, and he expressed amazement and disbelief yesterday, when discussing the situation. Apparently, he and his son only climb the mountain in the spring, never in the winter (for reasons of 'Hood is always hit with storms'), and he said the side the out-of-state hikers went up (the north side) is absolutely the worst for winter storms. So, any prayers you have for those three missing men and their families would be appreciated. This is the season for miracles, and it would wonderful for those men and their families if, when the search attempts can resume (they're thinking Saturday at this point) they can be found holed up in some snow cave, alive.
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Date: 2006-12-15 09:21 pm (UTC)Your boss does not sound that smart. What does he want...if half of his workers die on the way to work then it will take longer to train the new people! LOL!
I heard that about the people on the Hood, and it makes me sad that someone's passions can kill them.