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Driveway full of branches; mailbox askew. Sure could have been worse. True more winds are forecast for tonight?

It was a long night for us - lost power, cable internet, and 2 phone lines. Yard full of branches, but nothing major came down. Our big event last night was trailoring horses from their stable to our home where we felt there was a little more shelter. One very large tree completely blocked Grand on our trip home. Fortunately, one of Ojai's finest stopped traffic for us to turn the rig around and get home (many thanks!) We could see blue flashes from our house from either a downed power line or transformer. This morning, we found that a roof was ripped off one of our horse's shelters at the stable.

Of course, getting a reliable forecast is challenging, but Accuweather seems to think the worst is past (though last night they predicted more of the same for today/tonight).

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Once there you can check further by hitting the "Hazardous" report highlighted in Red.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/index.php?wfo=lox&zone=caz040

Lots of eucalyptus branches down around the neighborhood. Power was down for a few hours, cable TV and internet were down from 7pm through when I left this morning at 10am. Checking in for the first time from LA...

nothing major aside from loss of power/internet/etc. it's all on again now (3:15pm), which is not the case for many.

i was suddenly struck this morning to wonder whether to interpret this windstorm as a warning shot from some god that we'd better clean up our act somehow. i dont believe in such things, but i'm also aware that natural disasters have been used before to speak for deities. it was right then that i noticed that the Nativity scene that's been up in front of the Ojai Valley Shopping Center for weeks was gone, presumably either taken down in anticipation of the winds or carried away by them. if THIS is to be interpreted as a message, i shudder to think from whence it comes...

Teh wind was very cleansing. Air, land and spirit. It was a gnarly night on our property. Being in a very narrow canyon the wind was funneled and although the sky was clear it was raining, propbably from water the wind picked up from the dam up stream. No major damage. Lots of leaves and small branches to clean up. I awoke about 3am and did a walk around the property, All seemed okay. The cage I set in the kitchen procured it's inhabitant; a skunk that had been alluding us for a couple of days.

An intense, beautifully powerful evening. I spoke to the wind and thanked it for it's clearning and cleansing and asked that noboby be injured and that property damage be minimum.

It was a quite startling reminder to use your chapstick, and an even scary show of Chapstick's power. A tree almost fell on me (5 feet away) and thanks to Chapstick's love, I was spared! This has been forseen in the Book of Chapstick to be the first sign of the Chapocalypse!
Chapstick Bless!

ecstatic Magic Nite for Megumi and I ... said a
prayer for aircraft sighted on the horizon about 8PM ...
hopefully it was 'above it all'.

snuggled here this AM in piles of Oak Leaves ... sans internet ...

witnessed electric trees empowered.

electrodynamic we, thee,

universa-tree ...

see artwork of Electric Tree in PHOTOS section of DiosasAncianos:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DiosasAncianos2012/

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Evan, I liked your inquiry about the wind being a messenger of the gods, like Mercury, the winged messenger. If Jesus, Mary and Joseph were blown away, why? I went by there on Christmas, before the winds I believe, and baby Jesus was NOT in the crib. Another possible omen.

I fear that the gods are deserting Ojai, like Hermes left Anthony in Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra. The Ojai oligarchs and their duped silent majority are falling victims to the disease of materialism and moneyism. Jesus was born in a manger, but in this day and age, perhaps he found it more comfortable across the street at the Ojai Valley Inn. The allegory would thus be that the wind of the Holy Spirit has seen the light of capitalism, and whisked the holy family away, lest they be implicated in hypocrisy. Either that, or they capitulated, which the gods forbid.

the Gods would never desert ojai.
i got connections:)

I didn't have a chance to see the newspaper in the days after the winds. How high did they get?
It was FIERCE!

I'm glad someone has connections with the gods. But can the gods stay if the Ojai oligarchy asks them to leave, or would they even want to stay? My fears are allayed but not dismissed.

The gods and goddesses will do what they will.

The big question is what will YOU do to prepare? For the record, Ojai Valley's first (to my knowledge) CERT training course began last night at the Oak View Community Center. Approximately 20 concerned citizens have enrolled for the 7-week program.