I have never slept well, and after two decades sleeping - or trying to sleep on assorted aircraft carriers, minesweepers and the such, I still can't get a good night's sleep. The slightest sounds wakes me and I am up and roaming to investigate.... am I the only one who can't sleep well?
So I am usually up a few times nightly, as I still don't sleep too well these days. It was no different last night during a wind storm that ripped through western new York.
The lights were off a few times
during the wee hours, and even the extreme darkness with no lights, that woke me. This is really unusual for us as we rarely get anything
like that of high windy conditions for our area. It does however affect other
western NY areas. That was followed soon after by a power outage lasting almost two
hours, not to mention the high whistling howling winds, sounding more like an off-key
old opera singer, or a deadbeat train.... and tomorrow's forecast is expected to be more of the
same.
A warning to my
friends in Europe, to prepare now by tidying up your yards and around the
house, or your neighbors will looking at your things blown into their yards!
Above all, stay safe
everyone!
This
all blew - and still howling through as I type - through during the
night. The good thing is that now almost all the snow is gone due to days of all-day rains again....
Now to the chore of resetting the electric clocks. I've just forgotten how to set the analog clocks....
On the drone note, I now have three functional drones: my mini 4 pro, an Air 2 from my brother, and a Mavic 3 pro. I also have a mini 5 pro, though it's on crutches. With Winter cold all around and constant high winds starting up, so far in this early Winter I've only had one chance to test fly them, but all's good but quiet on the drone front. Now till Spring, or a rare above 50-degree day with low winds, would be very nice indeed.
The seeStar was out months ago, getting some more snaps, till the cold front returned. We tried getting even one of three comets in our night sky! Unfortunately, not too successful thanks to the clouds rolling in.... as usual.
The sunsets on the upper Niagara river are still marvelous!
