The walls of wind and rain that I posted about on Monday continued through Tuesday and into Wednesday, gave us a bit of a respite, and then just rained on Thursday.
We traveled to Rockaway from Seattle on Sunday, across the Longview Bridge over the Columbia River and down the river to Astoria, where the river meets the sea.
There was some clearing at the viewpoint on Neahkahnie Mountain.
We arrived late in the afternoon, turned on the heat, and settled in.
Sunday night was stormy.
On Monday we ventured out to shop a bit in Tillamook, and stopped at the Blue Heron, a cheese and food specialty shop with a pretty new garden and outdoor area. It was between squalls.
It stayed stormy through the afternoon and evening. Since we had a late lunch, we were just getting ready to prepare our supper at 6:00 when the power went out.
We looked around for emergency supplies and found almost nothing: a couple of candles, two of which we had brought with us from the wedding, and no matches, no flashlights. Tom went into Rockaway where there was no power but got a book of matches at the little grocery store.
We had a candlelight dinner with BLTA's without the bacon or toast.
Our Kindle and tablet were powered up so we spent the evening reading. The power was restored at 1:00AM.
Tuesday the stormy weather continued intermittently. We drove to Wheeler and spent an hour looking at everything in the antique mall. It was stormy most of the day again and we spent time reading and napping. I cooked a pasta dish for dinner with left overs for another meal.
Someone in the family purchased a new TV, a Fire TV, and it is mainly for streaming with internet. We don't have internet there. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get broadcast TV. I finally figured it out, but our selection was limited. We did get Public TV for our Sunday night programs, and then ABC for evening viewing, so Hey!, we got Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune! Lucky us.
We did a lot of reading.
More tomorrow.
I'm so glad you were able to get power again. What an adventure you're having! How lucky that you had a head lamp.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't sound terrible, like New York City for example. I like that picture of you with your headlamp.
ReplyDeleteWhen you're pinned down by bad weather you quickly look for other things to do. Power outages are a pain, particularly if they're long and especially when there are no supplies for outages like matches.
ReplyDeleteThe garden at Tillamook is wonderful. It's a shame the weather didn't cooperate, and I'm glad your power outage didn't last long.
ReplyDeleteYou will have to leave a power out bag with supplies there! We have outages all the time , I have book lights and just love them for real books of course. I can crochet in minimal light too! I always have cheese and crackers and fruit so that can be a meal!
ReplyDeleteIt will be remembered as an adventure maybe.
ReplyDeleteWhat an adventure and a bad weather! Here the electric lines are underground now, before we had lots of power cuts sometimes one week
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