Hurricane force winds

Wow! Little did I know when I last posted that we would be in for the storm of the century!!
We got hit with a Pacific storm that had gusts up to 120 MPH and it lasted for two days. Luckily for us, we live inland about 21 miles so our gusts weren't that high but still more than what we have ever seen since moving here four years ago.
Gardenwise, everything came through intact. My hydroponic plants did fine even though we didn't have power for four days. The roots were in nutrient rich water so they came through without a hitch. I did go out and dip and pour water over the rock wool containers to keep them damp but looks like they wicked up water from below just fine.
My Aerogarden has battery back-up but the battery went dead after a day without power. The literature says the battery is good for 13 hours of operation and I think it exceeded that. Finally after two days of no power we bought a small generator so we could run our fridge and deep freeze and not lose all our frozen foods. So I plugged in the aerogarden into an extension cord in the living room and it was our lighting! I got to tell you, it was so uplifting to have a nice bright light to read by and nibble on fresh greens at will! Every time I would pluck a leaf, our dachshund would hop up in my lap and I would offer him part of the lettuce leaf. He loved it.
So here we are five days later and everything is back on line for us. It was quite an adventure!
Christmas will be a special holiday for us this year. We have so much to be thankful for. Each other and the wonderful lineman crews that came from all over the west to help get the lines back up and get us back "on the grid" just in time for colder winter weather.