Me too! it was a hoot! Wiped out most of the trees @ our place. Anything I could of said would of been redundant to your post except I disagree about the weathermen & women. Trillions of dollars on radar, computers ETC. with very little improvement in predictions from my prospective.
I hope you all are doing well,those tornado touch downs in Manzanita and Tillamook are scary! I had one jump over the part of the city I was in, then came down and destroyed a school in Vancouver! It was an interesting sensation! Well this storm brought something very odd into our laps last night. I was heading to bed, just after 9 (I get up in the wee hours) and kept hearing an animal call outside, sounded like it was in distress. My wife and daughter heard it in the front room as well. So I got up, got dressed, grabbed a flashlight and headed outside.
I could hear the calls continuing, but now I heard more than one. It was almost like a bird, but not a bird. I searched for about 5 minutes in the wind and rain and finally spotted something on the ground - a baby/juvenile squirrel - soaking wet, and calling out, but not moving much. I let my wife know and she asked me to get it and bring it to her. Now, before I go any further, you need to know that as a family, we're pretty much bleeding hearts for about anything with fur, so even though squirrels are nothing more than tree rats, we tend to try and help where we can. After I brought him to her, I still heard the calls and went out again and found #2 about 20 yards away and grabbed him. And then call #3 went out and about 20 yards from that one, I found #3, the last one.
At this point, I really needed to get to bed, so my wife left a not recounting the events they went through after I left. They spent several hours warming them up and giving them water as well as some suet we keep around for the birds, but which the squirrels love. She did research online and found what to do to care for them, then also found a couple of squirrel rescues in the area that may be able to help today (they were closed that late at night). Color me surprised, I didn't think anyone would take wild animals like this, but apparently there are those that do. When I went to bed, they didn't look good, not moving much, very cold. They warmed them up gently and said they all bounced back and became more lively.
So, sometime this morning we expect they'll either get to go to a shelter or, if so advised, will be released back into the wild to grow up and eat the food in our bird feeders some later day
I'm guessing these guys survived quite a fall last night. We have 2 huge pin oaks in our backyard, about 80' tall, and I know there are several squirrel nests in the trees around us, including those 2 oaks. I can only surmise the nest somehow came dislodged during the storm and dropped them all to the ground.
Anyway, whatever happens, it's up to my wife and daughter to handle it from here. Just an interesting story from the storm, certainly not what I would have expected
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How in the world can you guys whine about missing a little fishing, for gosh sakes!!!
WE'RE FIGHTING FOR (um...hey, hon. Hand me some more Pringles, will ya?) OUR VERY LIVES, HERE!
ALL THE NEWS REPORTS SAY SO! (Thanks sweetie)!
Well this storm brought something very odd into our laps last night. I was heading to bed, just after 9 (I get up in the wee hours) and kept hearing an animal call outside, sounded like it was in distress. My wife and daughter heard it in the front room as well. So I got up, got dressed, grabbed a flashlight and headed outside.
I could hear the calls continuing, but now I heard more than one. It was almost like a bird, but not a bird. I searched for about 5 minutes in the wind and rain and finally spotted something on the ground - a baby/juvenile squirrel - soaking wet, and calling out, but not moving much. I let my wife know and she asked me to get it and bring it to her. Now, before I go any further, you need to know that as a family, we're pretty much bleeding hearts for about anything with fur, so even though squirrels are nothing more than tree rats, we tend to try and help where we can. After I brought him to her, I still heard the calls and went out again and found #2 about 20 yards away and grabbed him. And then call #3 went out and about 20 yards from that one, I found #3, the last one.
At this point, I really needed to get to bed, so my wife left a not recounting the events they went through after I left. They spent several hours warming them up and giving them water as well as some suet we keep around for the birds, but which the squirrels love. She did research online and found what to do to care for them, then also found a couple of squirrel rescues in the area that may be able to help today (they were closed that late at night). Color me surprised, I didn't think anyone would take wild animals like this, but apparently there are those that do. When I went to bed, they didn't look good, not moving much, very cold. They warmed them up gently and said they all bounced back and became more lively.
So, sometime this morning we expect they'll either get to go to a shelter or, if so advised, will be released back into the wild to grow up and eat the food in our bird feeders some later day
I'm guessing these guys survived quite a fall last night. We have 2 huge pin oaks in our backyard, about 80' tall, and I know there are several squirrel nests in the trees around us, including those 2 oaks. I can only surmise the nest somehow came dislodged during the storm and dropped them all to the ground.
Anyway, whatever happens, it's up to my wife and daughter to handle it from here. Just an interesting story from the storm, certainly not what I would have expected
I figure we need to keep a good crop of full grown squirrels nearby, just in case. Once that storm hits, we could be without food and power for a whole day! We'll need something to eat, and may just have to start hunting those little buggers.
Don't tell my daughter that, or she'll skin me alive...
