wow... what a night that was.... it was really bad... really windy at my house, and i mean REALLY WINDY.... 70 m.p.h. + gusts
we didnt have no damage... no trees down in my general area.... the wind was blowing in from the east. and rocking my trailer. you could hear the roof as the gusts hit the trailer . as a massive wind gust hit the house, and my 60' antenna tower hitting the tounge of my trailer, made a awful noise each time it banged it, but it's mounted about 4 '' from the tounge but high up. it was rocking also, the pine trees i could see in the far corner of the property were swaying so bad. i expected a snap at any time, our power held to 5 a.m. which really surprised me a LOT, my 60' sycamore tree was once again doing a hula dance .. the top going one way. while the bottom twisted a different way.....but she held firm.
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and now for my '' oh-shit'' moment,,,,>>>> about 2 a.m. i was outside with my spotlight looking at 2 pine trees during a massive wind gust... and i was walking away from them to go look in the backyard.. when i heard a loud '' THUMP'' buddy i took off running like a racehorse.. i thought one of those pines i had just left was coming out of the ground,and at the time i was under the sycamore tree. headed to my gate. so i couldnt see nothing. because the sycamore limbs are low hanging and full of leaves,,, so run run run.. i did,,,i hit that gate wide open.. lifting the latch as i ran thru it, ran another 100' before i stopped, to turn around to NOTHING,
i have a 14' livestock gate that isnt hooked to hinges. that i use to close the front yard up with.... well it was that heavy gate being blowed over 10' from me. that made that loud '' thump'' that got me to moving, i really thought i was trying to outrun a falling tree,
no damage , just a bunch of leaves. and some small limbs scattered all over the property.
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i'll give props to our local news team.... they really kicked it in high gear...they are in jacksonville 60 miles east of me.... and when they would report the potential of a high gust.. a couple of minutes later that gust would hit me,
they slept at the station and reported in shifts. and they '' read '' that doppler radar like no-ones business, they have a staff of 6 meteoroligists, and if i could i'd like to thank each one of them personally for the professionalism they bring to the table,
when the power went off. it was them i missed... after that i trully was on my own, i have some 5' cannalillies planted at my front window, i used them as my wind measuring,,, when they were weaving from the wind. i knew 60' up it was really blowing, im very surprised we didnt have no tree damage.... those pine trees were bending to the breaking point... but stayed togehter.
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i didnt get to. honour those that have fallen due to our 9/11 tragedy.....because i had my own issues going on. and for that i am trully regrettable,
and my greenhouse held firm... the plastic thats on it is all wrinkled up... but the thing didnt go airbourne. but i made it hoping it could take the wind... AND TAKE IT,,,,IT DID.