So….. how was your weekend?

not so good. saturday was pretty ok, but WAY too hot for me…
and then last night the dark barked next door and woke me up in pts panics, i was arfriad some one was in the back yard…could not go to sleep so i sat up in my dark room. I could see my kitty was sitting in the window seel right above my headboard…so i got enough courage to peek where she was at, between the window shade, to out into the back yard….
very sneakily…and felicity did not recognize me, she looked at me with nostrils flaring and eyes as wide as can be and when i leaned a little closer……..she hissed and flipped out, ran out of my room.
well the comotion, and the fact that my cat, sent me to check the rest of the house, make sure doors were locked….
all the cats were in the living room stairing at me like i was some stranger, they were ready to fly every where as i walked around.

so i got little sleep. slept for the rest of the night on the couch with the living room light on.
today i slept……..a lot, was sore and in pain because of muscle tightness, and right now still am tired. it;s still hot too.

You were just on the wrong end of it. There are still people who don’t have power tonight.

I could have taken a lot more pictures but driving around Argyll Road with no street lights, no traffic lights, hail and rain, in my little car… dodging trees… that was an experience! The south side of Edmonton was a literal black and green mess. The LRT was stranded out on the bridge by the University. There was absolutely no power to be had south of the University to at least 51 avenue. Listening to the EMS/Fire dispatch last night it seemed that Epcor was basically dealing with the downed lines by simply shutting down complete neighbourhoods so fires or accidents wouldn’t happen.

Here at home 109 Street was black, yet somehow our building managed to survive. Even so, we have an emergency generator so we’re good. I drove over to the data center because one of our wireless antennas got knocked out, and found a huge chunk of the wooden fence from the railway, blown out of the ground and lying in my parking stall. We had power at the data center, but that’s only because we are across the road from the substation. The rest of 142 Street was dead. Lucky us.

Here’s a few trees around my condo this morning that I had to dodge to get out

Here’s the front of the CN Tower. When my servers used to be here, I parked in that very spot – OFTEN. Had my servers still been there yesterday, I would have been in that very spot as I was always there during storms like this to ensure the battery backups were running. Freaky.
Photo credit goes out to Jeff Espejo, who is another client on mine who hosts with me as well.

I took some pictures from my balcony showing the blackouts on the south side, but without my tripod I couldn’t do proper long exposures and they didn’t turn out.

Fun times.

Yikes, talk about a little too much excitement!

So glad you don’t work there any more, Adraenyse, and didn’t get your car smashed. That is freaky.

Mine, too!

What a storm. I’m glad none of you were hurt.

Yowch! 😮 I’m glad you’re okay! Sounds like you had a microburst – almost a tornado but not quite 😮

twindragonsmum 😮

we had a little storm compared to that one. It kicked up quick and hit 65mph winds and broke a section of our tree…but nothing like that looks like hurricane damage in those pictures.

Otherwise, my weekend was full of picking up dog dodo -_-;

Glad everyone stayed safe in that though <3

Dragon, I’m glad you weren’t hurt! Adraenyse, too! My weekend was nice and boring, and I loved it.