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Weather that reminds us to give thanks<\/a><\/h3>\n
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As many times as I\u2019ve seen the wind whistle across our land in the Bog of Allen, I\u2019ve never before felt as nervous as I have today, as the giant trees around our property are bending alarmingly in the gale. Our cement house has actually groaned in the intense wind, which blew down a tree across our driveway recently and ripped our greenhouse door apart.<\/p>\n

Our heat pump gave out and the house is cold, the road to our house has patches of water so wide it is almost impassable, and our chickens are barely able to step out of the coop without being blown down. We do have a shed-full of wood for the fire, along with a pile of turf from the bog — but there\u2019s been nothing but rain, and that soaks the turf and slows down the chopping. I\u2019m supposed to be at work in Dublin right now, but our car broke down and the bus never showed up. Thankfully, our internet and phone works, so I could post this. Basically, though, it\u2019s not my best morning.<\/p>\n

Then again, I\u2019m thankful we don\u2019t live on the streets of Kilkenny yesterday, as the\u00a0swelling river burst through the streets<\/a>, smashing open the doors to pubs and businesses. I\u2019m pleased that we have electricity, as thousands of people here in Ireland were left without it after recent storms. I\u2019m thankful we did not have to\u00a0abandon our homes<\/a>\u00a0over Christmas, or\u00a0come home to a devastated neighbourhood.<\/a>\u00a0I\u2019m thankful we were not on one of the flights that had to be cancelled, or on the roads that were completely impassable.<\/div>\n

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Weather that reminds us to give thanks As many times as I\u2019ve seen the wind whistle across our land in the Bog of Allen, I\u2019ve never before felt as nervous as I have today, as the giant trees around our property are bending alarmingly in the gale. Our cement house has actually groaned in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[288,1512,11448,1219],"class_list":["post-15982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-extreme-weather","tag-ireland","tag-restoring-mayberry","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15983,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions\/15983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}