Howling Wind and Picking Up the Pieces it Left Behind...
Farmgal as an 11-year-old girl in Taipei. On top of the apartment roof. It was the 80's...I look so stylin'!!! If you are unaware, the last few days in Utah have been quite difficult. Thursday morning, we woke to the worst East wind that we have had since I have been married (that's almost 12 years). Wind speeds at over 100 miles per hour and pieces of our neighbors houses and trees flying all around us. If you have never experienced wind that strong, it is a very powerful force. It swept me off my feet on the way out to our chickens here at the house, and you can hardly breathe while you are standing in it. The force of it is astounding. I have experienced worse winds as a child living in Taiwan during typhoon season. The wind and rain would pound our windows, and our apartment building would actually sway under the force of the wind. The streets would flood, and since there were open sewers in the 1980's, flooding was not...