Little Blake Lake

"Stormy," a song written by Perry "Buddy" C. Buien and James R. Cobb and recorded by the Classics IV, was one of the songs that got stuck in my head while driving across Montana and/or North Dakota. The satellite radio channel for the '60s was good, but a couple songs were infectious (another was an Everly Brothers hit from the '50s).

Well, on Wednesday morning (28 July), I got a call from Jill at Lake Services Unlimited. She asked if I'd heard about Tuesday night's storm and then told me several trees were down at the cabin. A window was broken and Jeff would patch it up if I wanted him to.

Well, yes, I want him to Thank you very much.

I called Larry and got a first-hand account of the storm, which was violent and short-lived. Quite a few trees were down along the east side of Little Blake and several cabins had been damaged.

On Thursday morning I headed for Polk County to see for myself. Things weren't pretty. Sidetrack's deck will need rebuilding; a kitchen window was broken; one pane of the skylight shattered and the frame was damaged; the sliding screen on the south side was damaged; a tree came down across the driveway and is leaning on the garage; and there are horizontal trees and debris everywhere. Arrrgh! (as Charlie Brown would say).

We were lucky. The cabin doesn't appear to be damaged (a couple others were). No one was hurt.

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