Calm down, December!
The winds suddenly died down after 3pm, and all is very still now. No trees came down around here, a neighbor did lose some shingles off the roof, and my front screen door is totalled from banging hard against the door frame. Internet was gone for a while, and came back an hour or so ago. Without that or Netflix available, I got some more trip prep done, and read some more pages of Umberto Eco's THE NAME OF THE ROSE, which I've been hankerin' to read again since the movie doesn't seem to be... Sign in to see full entry.