EAST WINDS IV

ONE MONTH LATER

“Better keep your garage door closed.

Close your blinds at night.

These are not college kids working on roofs,”

Amy warns.

“If I were still doing rehabilitative counseling

with x-prisoners, they’d all be working.

Required to furnish their own tools,

I’d set them up with an air compressor,

a hammer, boots, tar clothes.
Around $2,000,

and they’ll be on the roof by Monday.”

Maybe she’s right about the neighborhood.

One guy standing out in the middle of the street

watching over a crew

when I triked up and down the street,

was still there when I came back with my camera.

He asked why I was taking pictures.

Perhaps they are not x-prisoners;

but actual prisoners. Gainfully employed.

Catastrophic emergency.

Weather cooperating.

The Salt Lake Tribune  Published: December 29, 2011 07:41PM

The Wasatch Front and much of the state are on track for the driest December since weather records have been kept.  The airport’s 0.03 inches is less than the previous record set in December 1976, when only 0.08 inches of water fell as rain or snow.

Up and down the street, home repairs abound.

People walking around on roofs like its

Avenue des Champs-Élysées.

All except our roof.

We’re still waiting for the State Farm Appraiser.

 Beautifully, life goes on:

Children still set up stands on the street corner,

even on January 3;

the sun still sets;

and nobly, we commemorate the birth

of the Savior 2000 years ago.

Postscript

From the day of the East Winds on December 1 through January 6, we had no storm—38 days.  Unheard of in mid-winter.  The State Farm Appraiser was going to come Thursday.  No show.  Friday at 4, he was coming right over.  No show.  We were thrilled to wake up to 8” of snow and snowing this morning.  Tonight (Saturday) he called and said he would be here Wednesday at 1 PM.