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October 10^th	Happy Thanksgiving
	Remember 10/10/10

Rupert hit by hurricane force winds -- power went off Section 2 around 12:30 AM and not restored until after 1PM --- much of the rest of town went out around 1AM

Winds caused extensive damage

Here a preliminary photo essay .

We See Moresby cut off by these trees across the street

Numerous trees around town seen similarly snapped off at the roots

Most of the downed trees looked to be spruce which I have previously shown to be diseased – and dying

	The old swimming pool building – now Far West etc one of the hardest hit buildings downtown
	Below is most the blown off roof across street in front of Museum

	Perhaps the previous roof was done so well that it will ‘save’ the building from a dowsing – I hear it was ‘welded on’ – using torches to melt the tar etc –something that now not legal
	Hopefully they had insurance

Even worse hit was the Funeral Home

This image is from before the crews got there to start cleaning up

More later

Worse hit residential that I saw

This is a destroyed trailer in ‘Summit View’ trailer court in an industrial park

The young woman said she was not hurt – and perhaps was not in trailer when it went

But other trailers lost their windows etc --- and numerous tenants have no where else to go – more later


	Holland Rock which is closest to PR – saw winds SE 65 gust 82 mph around 1 AM according to the text part of daily summary

And where was the City?

What Emergency response?

No radio signals --- no central location giving information--- When will power come back? What about the Gas? I hear a slide has cut the line

What about those people in trailers that either destroyed of windows broken out?

Of course there were some City crews out there

Here they put up a tape on the sidewalk to warn pedestrians about the tree that is only being supported by those hydro lines

Note in passing that this is probably the home owners responsibility--- the building in foreground is on the property line --- so the base of tree well onto home owners property --- and liability

	Hopefully it does not get too windy – or rain too hard
	These fallen trees on other side of street from above (cliff at McBride and 4^th) are looking very precarious – again they are Sitka Spruce that appear to be diseased --- and again they might be the property owners responsibility --- more later

	PNG shuts off the Gas to Section 2
	Presumably there is a slide on Highway 16 (Tyee?) and ‘we’ have used up most the stored gas ---so shutting down different sections of town to ‘conserve’ what is left

Created by LG on 10/10/2010

Last updated on Sunday, October 10, 2010

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Happy Thanksgiving

PNG shuts off the Gas to Section 2