Very High Wind

[quikdraw67]

We are under a high wine warning here in NEPA. It's been very windy since last night, and the temperature has dropped about 20 degrees from yesterday. We ended up with a quarter inch of ice, which was really fun to shovel off the driveway.

Surprisingly, we did not lose power, and have had no calls for trees down. With all the high winds we have had this past summer, fall, and winter, I think most of the dead and weakened ones have come down already.

I have the day off, but neither myself or Mrs. QD67 have any desire to go out in this wind.

I fully get why those who can go to Florida after the holidays.

Spring can't get here soon enough.

 

[Harrison]

Good luck. Wind and cold together are killers.

 

[alwslate]

Yesterday here in Indiana, 7 degrees and wind out of the North gusting to 40 mph. Good day for sleeping.

 

[625-7]

Well Quickdraw a fair bit down the road from you we had a high whiskey warning here high in the ridge. Sent she who is always right to work today. Sounded like a freight train coming down the highway last night, holy smokes. Stayed home today with Yukon Jack and the Automag.

 

[30-30remchester]

Saw Dorothy and Toto blow by last week. In my construction yard I found a 6'-piece of schedule 40 pvc well casing that had blown into the yard as well as a pair of shorts and a sock. Apparently, it blew so hard that it undressed a passerby and suck casing from a neighbors well. That is the story I will be telling.

 

[Golddollar]

It was so windy here we had whitecaps in the commode.

 

[arjay]

I lived in an area for thirty years where 100 mph winds would hit almost every January or February.it was wild. One year a bedroom window (single pane) exploded all over my sons bed. A few years later,in our new house,the power went out at 2 am.I went back to sleep and it was still out at dawn. I looked out the back door and the power poles had snapped along a one mile stretch of road.They replaced them with steel poles. Roofs coming off and buildings blowing down was common in the late 70s and early 80s there. They really tightened up the building codes in the following years.

 

[LVSteve]

It was so windy here we had whitecaps in the commode.

The Finches were surfing in my birdbath a few days ago.