The Storm

I am finally getting around to posting about the big storm that came thorough last Friday. I had a front row seat at work. My desk faces the ambulance doors, so I got to watch the wild weather all day. I felt so bad for all the police, fire, and ambulance crews, going from one problem to the other. The clinic was closed due to the power outage. Some of the doctors came over and opened up an impromptu clinic in our fast-track area. They even brought over their own staff. I was very impressed with the IT department, they were there quickly, installing all the programs the clinic would need to use on our computers. The ER was relatively slow for the whole day.

I went home to see what damage had been done. Jason had gotten off work that morning and had prepared me for it somewhat. I was very sad to see that my ivy "tree" had been blown over. This is an ivy plant that grew on my clothes line post. It has to be as old as the house, about 93 years. Some of the branches were 10 inches thick. What surprised me was not that it had blown over, but that the metal post that was holding it up bent.