Open Thread - Thurs - 18 Dec 2025 - Weather Comes, Weather Goes - Hopefully
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 12/18/2025 - 5:00am
Weather Comes, Weather Goes - Hopefully
It's been kinda insane where I live, recently. The Wind! The Rain! The Floods! We lost access to the internet a few times, and lost power as well. Monday afternoon/night, after we lost power, our weather station (which has battery backup and can store data without mains power for about 24 hours or more) recorded wind gusts of 42 mph. And that is basically a record at the farm. Even the neighbor's cows don't make wind gusts that strong!
So, I'm posting this quickly, because the forecasters say we are going to get another round of wind and rain tonight. It's not supposed to be 'as bad', so there's that, but we are hunkering down expecting to have no power or internet regardless.

The Essex and the Whale, as drawn by Thomas Nickerson, one of the surviving sailors - Public Domain, Link

