Maybe it takes a windstorm to jumpstart my blogging...I awoke to the gusting wind at 3am and immediately my mind was back in time to the many windstorms that we have experienced in our 46 years liiving in Wallowa County, Oregon...The most memorable one for me was December 1982...It blew the roof off of the highschool cafeteria, just before Christmas break...The storm (wind and rain) lasted for 2 days...I worked in the lunchroom at that time and we had planned on a ham dinner to celebrate Christmas...Needless to say that didn't happen but what did happen was even better...Contracors were called in to replace the roof and all staff members and many community members and students, showed up to help...Our ham dinner soon turned into ham sandwiches on our homemade bread, along with salads that had already been prepared..Sandwiches and salad along with coffee, tea and milk was handed out to all who came to help...That lasted through the initial cleanup and the construction crews stayed on for the next two weeks and had a roof back on and school resumed in January 1983 as if it had been a normal Christmas vacation...Below is a link if you want to read about more windstorms in Wallowa County...So far the storm in progress now is just a slight breeze compared to others we have known...Hugs To All...OWAV:)
https://omanumber1.blogspot.com/2011/12/windy34.html
