Fall Craziness

In case you haven't heard, we've had quite a bizarre fall. We've had 3 wind storms. All of which have had gusts of high speeds. The first wind storm knocked out power in all of Anchorage. They even cancelled school here. We, thankfully, were only without power for a few hours (in the middle of the night). There were lots of people that it took days to restore their power. We had a lot of trees blow over. I had two tomato plants blow over. Everyone finally had power about five days after the storm. Then a week after that we got another wind storm. Lots of high winds but less power outages. A few days later we had another wind storm. Of course with all the wind, it's rained tons. There has been flooding and road closures and wash outs. It's been an adventure here in Alaska. I was talking with my neighbor and she said that we've broken the rain record for the year. That means in 2012 we've broken the snow and rain records. We almost set a record in July for the coldest July. It has been a crazy year for weather. In ways we didn't get summer. We had some nice days but not what we're used to. We also had our first frost earlier than usual. Usually it frosts hard on September 29th, this year it was September 9th. Needless to say I lost almost all my tomato plants way too early. It frosted for 3 days and it hasn't frosted since. I guess the upside of fall is fires in the fireplace. It is also getting dark at night. Sunset is around 8PM with sunrise being close to 8AM. It's going to be getting more dark faster until we hit the winter solstice. It's supposed to rain most of the week. Honestly, it's getting a little old. With the wind and the rain, it reminds me of living in southeast in the winter. Still nothing on the job hunt but I'm still looking. I'm also kinda bored with my classes but I'm trudging on. Otherwise I can't say there is much exciting going one. I just wanted to make sure I updated this. Have fun :)