Morning, muchachos.
Morning, Raz. How's the weather by you this morning?
Calmer today than yesterday. First half of yesterday was pretty blustery and wet. Mostly, though, it's been a moderate, if soggy, autumn.
We've been pretty lucky too, as far as autumns go. Today was our first bit of anything nasty, other than some crazy wind a couple of November Sundays.
I've probably mentioned before that the little town where I live bears a Native American name, Enumclaw, that translates roughly to "a windy place." The town is on a plateau scraped clean every few centuries by an eruption of Ta•Ho•Ma, aka Mt Rainier, and it is situated at the mouth of Chinook Pass. So when atmospheric pressure drops on our side of the Cascades, the wind comes screaming through the pass from the east side, and the pass becomes a big venturi. Sometimes it damned near becomes a low-grade hurricane.