Isn't there a song about Windy?
I've done two surveys involving trees that fell and killed people. One was a 30" fir that cut a mountain cabin in half, the other a eucalyptus that landed on a car driving past it on Interstate 80 (talk about bad timing).
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Jim Frame, post: 394113, member: 10 wrote: the other a eucalyptus that landed on a car driving past it on Interstate 80 (talk about bad timing).
The cellist for ELO was killed when a hay bale crushed the car he was driving.
The tree limbs falling. I always warn the guys new to my crew when we work under the cottonwoods along the creeks, if the wind comes up, we re not going near them, and why. Since we normally have no trees over about 15' tall around here, it just ain't natural for us to think of tree limbs falling from overhead! I know we call it a wind day when the wind is blowing enough dust to make it kinda twilight dark, If we see smoke, or if it springs a truck door. I'd say about 40mph is that range. It's always some wind here, usually more than a breeze, enough that visitors comment on it. The weather channel actually has Abilene on it's list of the windiest cities in the US.
I don't like to look through the gun to see the pole moving a few inches from side to side when I know it's really not moving more than maybe a half inch from side to side. Time to go home or at least take a long break. It's my name on the line, no one else's.
Seiche's can be a legitimate concern along the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie (which is shallower and aligned SW-NE with the prevailing winds). See the following news articles about a 7' rise in lake levels on the eastern end of Lake Erie (near Buffalo, NY) in 2015 due to a seiche in Nov 2015- while the water near Toledo, Oh fell by 6'.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2015/11/lake_erie_phenomenon_seiche_ca.html
Gusts up to 50 mph today, temps hovering around 32-35^. Too windy to survey? Nope. Just miserable.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Williwaw, post: 395652, member: 7066 wrote: Gusts up to 50 mph today, temps hovering around 32-35^. Too windy to survey? Nope. Just miserable.
We've got a quasi-Chinook down here. Winds sustained at 35, gusts to 50. But temps were in the 80s...it will get chilly here in a day or two.
I find working in the wind to be the hardest of all.
Holding the pole steady, stopping yourself bumping the instrument - its exhausting.
I don't mind snow or rain nearly as much
Of course it doesn't help that NZ is right in the middle of the "Roaring Forties"
Gale force winds are commonplace here
When the 32 ounce Bob won't steady it's time to be inside...
Bad working weather for me, from bad to worse: heat, cold, wind, fog. We don't have snow here, so "cold" for me is anything below 50å¡. And I don't work in the rain, so it's only annoying because it mucks up the schedule.
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Switching it over to AM
Searching for a truer sound
Can't recall the call letters
Steel guitar and settle down
Catching an all-night station
Somewhere in Louisiana
It sounds like 1963
But for now it sounds like heaven
May the wind take your troubles away
May the wind take your troubles away
Both feet on the floor, two hands on the wheel
May the wind take your troubles away
Just added Son Volt to my Pandora stations, cool tunes James.