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Saturday, March 13. 2010

A mighty wind

Some wonderful windstorm today here. Hurricane-like and packed with the majestic power of Nature. 66 mph gusts.


Most of the screens blown off ye olde cabin, and a few trees down or half-down. If Maggie's goes down for a while, that will be why.

Posted by Bird Dog at 18:08 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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We're getting a lot of wind here in NE CT too. The house is pretty quiet tonight (other than my practicing my guitar scales) - you can hear the house creaking. I was just outside and I'm getting nervous about a huge ash tree that seems to be swaying more than usual.
#1 Tom Francis on 2010-03-13 19:48 (Reply)
watch yoself with that chainsaw --nobody ever gets hurt when they're expecting to --
#2 buddy larsen on 2010-03-13 21:23 (Reply)
Just had a gust here to 52 mph on Ye Olde Anemometer and the wind is steady 12 to 15 out of the NNE to NE - occasionally holding at 18 -20 out of the NE.
#3 Tom Francis on 2010-03-13 22:25 (Reply)
Your post brings back memories of our last hurricane, Hurricane Ike, which blew right straight over the center of Houston with 90 plus mile an hour winds. I lay in bed for six hours, dreading the possible loss of our roof with the roaring wind howling over me..

Didn't sleep much that night. We kept our roof, but lost our electricity for 12 days -- of 90 degree weather. Not good memories. Maybe we'll be lucky this year.

Marianne
#4 Marianne Matthews on 2010-03-13 23:25 (Reply)

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