It's still raining and windy -- what we from the Mojave desert would describe as a light breeze. No trees are down, but the yard is littered with broken branches. The back yard is washing down into the creek (again) and the drainage ditch in front is eroding (again). There's some water in the basement, a result of a clogged gutter.
Driving around the neighborhood, our house is about the norm -- lots of litter in the roads and yard; some garbage cans blown over; water, water everywhere; not much else. According to the radio, we've had some 4-6 inches of rain so far.
Tomorrow the clean-up begins.
[UPDATE 9 Sep 08] The clean-up turned out to be a little more than I bargained for. The tree pictured above started leaning the next day and the power company had to bring out an emergency crew to take enough of it down to avoid taking out the power line, cable, three poles, and a transformer if it falls.
It's "safe" for now; a crew will return in the next few days to take it completely down and turn it into firewood.
[UPDATE II 11 Sep 2008] The white oak is now firewood and lumber - well, almost. Our neighbor still has to cart it away and we need to fill the dents that occurred when it came down, but the major work is done.
It's good we brought it down, because it was evident when they made the final cuts that the base was pretty rotted out.
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