Wild Weather

Looking out across this landscape, you'd never know there

was an event Wednesday afternoon that set most of the county 

glued to the live shots on Channel 12.  "We had Tornadoes!"

This is what it looked like from our place, to the northeast, after 

the main event had died down.  Now, no way did this even compare
to those in the the rest of the country, but for Glen and Butte county's
" It was a big deal".

The first hit was at  Ordbend about 5:30pm then Durham,
lifted over hwy 99 to Butte Valley were it came down again.
It finished up it's destructive dance around the valley
 by hitting a small ranch at the foot of  Mt Mountain.

Thank God, no injuries or deaths.  Farm equipment moved around, 

garages and barns blown up, power poles down, but no homes hit.  

The biggest damage was to walnut and almond orchards, 

which doesn't seem like much, but remember

that's someones lively hood.

Besides our little wind storm, we were deluged by rain and even 

managed to have it snow again in the mountains.

Well! that was the only exciting thing going on around here this week.

Every one have a safe Memorial Day weekend 

Hope your doing something fun and

 remember why you have the day off.