High Wind Warning
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ontheriver
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Oh. Welcome to my life. The most windy season ever. It just never stops. Cold is one thing. Wind is awful.
It's been calm today. I knew it wouldn't last. Maybe I'll wake up in Oz one day. Where's that praying emoji?
Nothing here.
We spent yesterday late afternoon and evening rigging out a large service truck with a dump trailer loaded with a cord of firewood. The driver pulled in to the very restricted narrow drive of our neighbor...a drive that hadn't been touched or driven on since the snow storm. It was sheet ice and the truck slid sideways off the crowned narrow drive and came to rest against a large tree, completely "locked out" from moving forward or reverse. We had to winch truck and trailer sideways to get it off the tree and squarely back in the center of the driveway. The wood was for us.
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I sense another Weather Channel show... Heavy Rescue Piney Point.
black dog
Free America
Jackass 6, The Saga Continues.
With my movie-star good looks and Adonis physique, it would definitely be a hit!
When these warnings are issued, I usually take it with a grain of salt, never as bad as they hype it up to be.
Have to say, it's blowing out there. Gusts to 31, but I know my wind sensor is in a bad place, so it was probably higher. Wouldn't surprise me if the power went out.
Have to say, it's blowing out there. Gusts to 31, but I know my wind sensor is in a bad place, so it was probably higher. Wouldn't surprise me if the power went out.
Only you, Gilligan.
Hey..I was not the one that drove the truck and trailer down the wrong driveway. They are lucky the load of wood was for us....would have been quite a challenge for a regular wrecker to move all of that stuff straight sideways to get the truck off the tree without additional body damage.When these warnings are issued, I usually take it with a grain of salt, never as bad as they hype it up to be.
Have to say, it's blowing out there. Gusts to 31, but I know my wind sensor is in a bad place, so it was probably higher. Wouldn't surprise me if the power went out.
Only you, Gilligan.
You obviously need a different colored traffic cone at the end of the driveway. They couldn't see the orange one.
We've had terrible bursts of wind here since daybreak. Being "in the woods" is kind of nerve racking when you can here it coming.
frequentflier
happy to be living
I know you know a lot of people and can say you are very lucky to have found a lot of- I'm assuming seasoned- firewood. Facebook is filled with people looking for it and it seems there isn't much out there.
We have plenty and fortunately if we do need some, there is a gentleman from the church next door that has a lot. If we get some from him, we will make a donation to the church.
The NW wind direction is buffered from the woods to our NW but the tree tops are rockin'...and the island creek is solid whitecaps, being perfectly aligned with the wind direction. Pic below...taken from my office window.
Dude was lucky that someone with a modicum of common sense was there to help them out. I know damn well that was a tricky reposition to pull off. WELL DONE!
"I can see clearly now, but my tits are freezing off!" - Johnny Nash, former alternate for the Jamaican bobsled team.
BOP
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A collab with Matt's Off-Road, Fab Rats, that Trail-Mater guy, maybe?