Last Thursday night, the west coast of the US and Canada was wracked with a huge wind storm. Here in Oregon, it took out power to over 200,000 homes. My house is surrounded by Chinese elm trees and a couple of them lost some very large branches, crashing down into my house, cutting power. Here it is Monday and I hope to have power restored today. Luckily, it just took the power lines and did damage to my porch roof instead of my house roof. I'm posting this from a WiFi cafe. This photo was taken Friday morning, Dec. 14, 2006, Madras, OR.