Wind: One
Today was very, very windy – freakishly so.

I was outside at lunch and actually had to grab hold of a woman’s hand to keep her from getting knocked down. I thought we’d have to form a human chain to cross the street – in fact I was about to suggest it when we decided to huddle together and cross as a mass instead.

Windy.

Then I got a voicemail message saying that the power was out at home and to call Deeps on his cell. I called and he said he was waiting for me at a nearby park to pick me up. We drove home and all the streets around us had power – and about half of our block had power. As best I could tell about a dozen houses were affected.

In the end, the wind was victorious – scoring one point on our aging power grid. I don’t know what kind of grid we’re on, but the schmancy condos up the block kept their power. The power failure was so spotty and weird that Deeps was convinced that I’d somehow trained the cat to trip all the fuses.

I don’t know where he’d get an idea like that – everyone knows I’m trying to teach the cat to speak English.