Greetings!  

Wow! One heck of a week huh?

I am just glad that no one was seriously hurt and the damage can be repaired.

Our friends the Poloms are doing well. their house had a tree land on it. Our friends at J&B Tree have more people to help than they can possibly get to. John and his crews are working 12-15 hours days.
The Schultz farm didn't fair so well. They didn't get power until Thursday evening. Much of their cherry crop is facing potential ruination. They picked 50,000 pounds of cherries on Thursday in an effort to get them to the processor before they are a total loss. This may be the last week for tart cherries from them.

We have shared stories over the last couple days with everyone that we have talked to. All have their own stories to tell about what they were doing during the storm and what happened to them. It seems that everyone was touched by the short but ferocious fury of the weather.

A hundred pounds of dry ice later and we came through this one okay ourselves. We have power at home and we hope that everyone has theirs back on too.

The thing that we got out of this is we need to have a written preparedness plan so that if Lisa and I are not in town our staff has some guidelines to follow. Power outages are tricky, quite often the power comes right back on with no problems. when it doesn't we need to move quickly and decisively.

We hope you have some sort of a written plan for your business or home.