New Year's event; big wind, some damage
There were many long-time attendees at the annual New Year's Day event at the Mazerolle home as well as some first-timers.The traditional Japanese food layout along with the Christmas items were very well done. Kudos to the hostess, Michele.
All of the dishes guests have come to expect at the celebration were on display: lobster and crab, chicken and teriyaki vegetables, "tied" fish, sashimi and wasabi, the potato salad and the cold sesame string beans, and much more.
There were some new sushi creations, which was nice.
Among the new attendees at the mammoth party of about 40 people, total, were three members of the Blanchard family: father, older sister and younger brother.
Blanchard is not a common name, and I’d be curious to know if they are related to or know of Gus Blanchard of Sacramento. I worked with Gus for several years. He was Bay Film’s liaison for clients in Sacramento. Gus was older, having retired from the administration of Sacramento public schools, selling real estate on the side.
Gus, who played Dixieland jazz tuba, was also one of the original founders and organizers in the now world famous annual Sacramento Jazz Festival.
That was Tuesday.
On Friday, the town was hit by a strong wind and rain storm, the force of which ripped big limbs from many trees and tore a few of the trees out of the ground entirely. Live oak, eucalyptus, palm and pine, all suffered.
Power went out at my place about 5:45 a.m. Friday. Didn’t come back on until later in the afternoon.
It was still dark when it happened. I walked around the block to see how extensive the outage was. My house only? Those around me? The whole town?
It appeared the outage started at my place, but stretched into the east side of town for several blocks at least.
Next day I asked around. The lady at the corner market said that the store had power for some of the day, but later went out and they closed the store early.
“It looked like the lights were out every other block,” she said.
The most damage seen was at the town graveyard.
Flowers and memorabilia left at the graves were blown around. Many branches were sprawled at the base of trees. A few trees were uprooted.
Orange cones lined up at the intersection right by the office blocked vehicles from entering any deeper into the cemetery grounds.
(Notice that "Forman's" is misspelled. Ought to be "Foreman's")
posted by Tom Nadeau at 6:50 PM
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