Weather forecasters started out the weekend by predicting a large windstorm to hit sometime on Sunday. By Sunday afternoon, they were all back peddling a bit and covering their previous predictions by saying, “you can never be too prepared!” By 9pm the winds really did start picking up and, at one point, reached 50-60 miles per hour in Colton and 102 miles per hour on the coast. Not such a good thing when we’re surrounded by 100 foot trees! This turned out to be the worst windstorm in 10 years and most likely the top 5 worst ever in Oregon. With daybreak came the discovery that one of our very large trees did snap and fall directly onto a gate and electric fence in Kody’s pasture. Luckily everyone is safe, but we have our fence repair work cut out for the weekend.
