Vancouver Wind Storm...

Hi All

We have just finished a crazy weather week here in Vancouver with a huge storm with winds of 100km/hr that came through at 3am on Thursday morning taking out a lot of big trees and leaving more than 200 000 homes without power. I spent the night sleeping in the corridor away from our windows that face directly into the storm path just in case of a breakage...all safe and well by morning.

It was very sad to wander around today to see so many big old trees that have come down in the storm in Stanley Park, some of them more than 100 years old as well as a few favourites of mine by the water...a good lesson in impermanence and the power of nature I suppose. The internal roads in Stanley park are still closed off as well as the foot trails because of all of the damage.

G