Auntie Em! Auntie Em!

Well, the latest snowstorm missed us, but now we have wind. It started about 24 hours ago and has been pretty steady with almost a constant 10-20mph blow, with gusts up to 50mph. But the last hour it seems to have gotten worse, and it sounds like an airpliner is taxiing around the house, with all the noise. So far, we have power, but I wouldn't place bets on that situation lasting. Stuff is blowing against the house, making it difficult to discern between debris or the neighbors objecting to my experiments to create life from robbed graves, (they're a rowdy and superstitious lot....).
The red oaks that tower around the manor are swaying violently back and forth, like some sort of Middle Earth Ent Pentecostal revival meeting. It's really something. Hopefully it'll calm down soon...