If you were in the Bay Area, you may have noticed that there was a lot of intense weather yesterday what with the buckets of rain and super-high winds. The news last night was all about the awesomeness of Nature’s destructive power. Lucky me, I was bestowed a tripartite gift.

Element 1) Pants so wet by the time I got to work I could not stand to wear them. Silly me, I thought, I shouldn’t have worn such warm, thick-materialed pants on such a wet day. Luckily I have an emergency suit in my office (and it still fit) so I was cool.

Element 2) Arriving home to see that I had no front window. Literally. My living room window was gone and a spectacle of glass littered the driveway.

It looks like this now:

(I’m sure it’s also the storm’s fault I can’t figure out how to make these pictures bigger!)

Element 3) My next door neighbor decided to wake me up early this morning (ok, it was 10 a.m.) to insist that the leak in her garage was coming from my house. Okay, yeah, the houses are attached, but by her explanation of where her leak was there was no way the fault was on my side. Also she felt the need to point out that my window had been only eight years old and her forty year old windows held up just fine. Nice.

Update: The storm is slightly less evil than previously thought! I’m not stupid! IE7 is! Firefox rules!