Seawall Oct 02 2012 03a

Seawall Oct 02 2012 03a, a photo by VancouverDoug on Flickr.

Last evening the lower mainland BC and most of Vancouver Island experienced the first wind storm of the coming winter season. On a Category 1 to 5 scale - with the storm of December 2001 (I lost a window in my apartment) and the typhoon class storm of December 2006 (it leveled 41 hectares of Stanley Park) both category 5 storms - this most recent storm, more a warm-up really, I'd rate a 1. Low on the scale but still able to find one less than perfectly moored sailboat and deliver it to Sunset Beach in Vancouver's West End.

Gilligan's got some explaining to do.