So yesterday we had a real ripper of a storm here in Beautiful BC. It hit most of the Southern Coast of the province including Vancouver, Victoria and Vancouver Island.

Hardest hit seems to have been my own town of Port Alberni. There were trees falling everywhere, 105km/h winds on my weather station branches being ripped off and flying down the street. 113mm (about 4.44in) of rain fell in about 12 hours and flooded rivers, streets, and homes.

Here are some pictures and I even uploaded some video to YouTube.

Pictures:

And here is the video… YouTube… power to the people!

I had the priviledge today of attending a wedding of a good friend of mine Kyla Smith, to a new friend, Vikram, I will come out and say it right off the bat… I’m totally unsure about Vikrams last name, spelling or otherwise (i’m hoping I’m spelling his FIRST name right. :+)) So you’ll have to forgive me, but I’m sure I’ll be fully up to speed soon enough.

Anyway, the ceremony was held in Ladysmith BC at Transfer Beach. It was a spectacular day on a spectacular setting.

I wish the best for Kyla and Vikram and know that they will be happy together.

This was a truly special wedding considering Kyla is from here in Nanaimo, Canada. Vikram is from India, they met in Tokyo while Kyla was teaching English and they are now living in London. Wow!

Cheers.

And congratulations to the bride and groom! Knowing Kyla, I’m sure a baby is in their not-too-distant future.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I’ve added a couple pictures of our new deck on my previous post. We are definitely starting to enjoy it, even without stairs, which I’m sure is giving the Grandparents nightmares!! Muaaahahha

Here’s the original post with the updated slideshow. If you’re having trouble viewing the slideshow, let me know.

It’s been a big week… me and deck-builder-extraodinaire, Cliff (my father-in-law) built a deck… ok. so he did 95% of the work. But it was fun. And there’s more work to be done, but it’s coming along nicely.

If you are a longtime reader of my blog (I don’t know who exactly would qualify? :)) You might remember that I started my blog largely in response to my discussions with “LT-SMASH”. I’ve been in the odd Blog War with him as well.

So, yesterday, when he pronounced on his blog that newly minted White House Press Secretary Tony Snow was an avid reader of his and other “milblogs”.

Well, all I could think was… “Damn, 3 degrees of separation from the President of the United States himself? That ain’t bad”.

There’s more of a likelyhood of Dubya hearing about or *gasp* reading one of my blog posts than many of my own relatives.

Ha.

God Bless the Internet.