First Power outage of season

This afternoon out of a clear blue sky (literally) withing 3 minutes the wind had picked up to gusts in the 90's. The alpacas stampeded around the paddock, things not battened down, took off and the sky went dark purple. Within minutes the power was off - it didn't come back for about 8 hours. There are branches and trees down all over the island even a hydro pole split in two on Foster and its still blowing at 9pm. We could loose power again tonight. One of my friends (thanks DG) put this on Facebook -

"Wow!! We watched the storm come sweeping from the northwest and hitting like a hurricane, complete with hail!! As it crossed Snake Island it looked like a mass of water swirling around the air - like several windspouts but miles across! I was thanking heavens I wasn't on any ferry! Poseidon Adventure??!!"