As much as we miss Michelle while she’s out of town, I have been grateful that she has not been here to experience some of what we’re seeing here on the homestead. We got clobbered with a winter storm Monday and Tuesday, and things happened that she just would not have appreciated. Not that we did, but we took consolation knowing that she was with her parents at the time.
Monday we saw 50 knot north winds; Tuesday, they ramped up to 55 knots, with gusts, according to the weather service, of 80 knots. That’s just a hair above 92 miles per hour. It’s wind enough to have a very unsettling affect on our wind generator.
One of the Alaska State Ferries headed north past the homestead with iced hull (Photo: Mark Zeiger).
