Some severe thunderstorms rolled through this past Friday, 06/29/2012.  Many homes and businesses are still without power almost 3 days later.  Trees are down and traffic lights are not working.  I was very lucky as my power only went out for a short time.  Just enough to disrupt my weather station data collection.  The wind knocked down the weather station, but it was fairly easy to put back up again.  The anemometer stopped working, but after a couple of days it started working again, even before I could take a look at it.  Must have gotten some water in it that eventually dried up.  Also, the rain gauge doesn’t always record rainfall even when I know it has rained, so I need to take a look at it.  I also have a couple of improvements planned, such as a UPS and securing the PVC tubing with pins to keep the parts from separating under the wind load. I’ll post an update when I get back to working on some of these fixes.