It was windy yesterday afternoon. Andy said the wind didn’t knock him over, but it did knock him around. In the picture below we can barely see the mountains a mile or two away — not because of a forest fire but because of the dust from the wind.
Springtime in the Rockies. Better dust than tornadoes, though. Do you ever have trouble with winds?
May 12, 2014
No, my digestion system works just fine since I switched to vegetarian food. I suppose that my trouble with winds can be called just normal.
So no tornadoes nor sneezing from the dust there!
It’s actually not normally windy here. In the heat of the summer, there is generally little or no wind. However, when we get big storm systems across the country in other seasons, it can be quite windy before we actually get any of the rain or snow. The system that went through here on the 9th spawned a small tornado that toppled a mobile home and badly damaged some chicken houses. That was about 5 miles south of here. And, if they track just right, hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico that go ashore in western Louisiana or Texas can track in our direction, weakening into tropical storms or depressions before they get to us. In 2008, we delayed leaving on a trip to Wisconsin until most of the remnants of Gustav passed. Then, while we were gone, Ike went through Arkansas with tropical storm force winds, spawning tornadoes and dumping a lot of rain across the state (we didn’t have any damage).
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March is usually our windiest month because the jet stream shifts and we’re so high up. I used to joke that I had to wear ankle weights when I went out to keep from being blown away.
LOL. i see rummy is in fine form today!
yesterday the wind blew here close to 40 mph the entire day.
it was rather tiring actually. it’s always windy… but usually not that bad.
today it’s trying to rain. key word TRYING. hold good thoughts for us!
i love your apartments… the pine trees… the distant mountains…
at least on days when you can see them!
even so… on the days you can’t …. you know they’re THERE! and they’re wonderful!
Years ago I went looking at houses, but I didn’t find anything I liked as much as looking out at the trees here. Unfortunately, they’re starting to succumb to the drought. Last week they had to saw down a small pine in front of the apartments facing us (it was dead and in front of a much bigger one, so its absence isn’t that noticeable), and notice the big tree to the right of center in the picture. It’s clearly starting to die. I’ll miss it!
Good luck on getting some rain.
Wind? I hate it. Not with a passion. For practical purposes.
I live close to the coast. You meander, lost in your dreams, everything is fine, just the usual nuisance of your hair being blown around your face, and suddenly you hit – what I call a wind pocket. It’s quite fantastic. Frontal attack. The sort of gust that makes you will yourself to keep your feet on the ground (and I am fit and healthy – god knows what it must be like for the frail). Even my son who is miles taller than me and broad shouldered mentioned the other day he walked into one those “wind pockets” nearly losing his balance. Emphasis on ‘nearly’. Nearly is ok.
And then, of course, a little while ago we had that desert dust in the cocktail of wind. Oh Jean, I shouldn’t be laughing, but it was funny. Pristine windows finely coated. Cars, even the BMWs, Mercedes and Bentleys parked in open air car parks around here powdered. Still, it could have been worse. Like Noah’s flood.
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We get winds like that a lot in March. It’s more unusual to have them this time of year.
when it is from the East – the front windows in my bedroom rattle badly…I now know how to fix them – a takeaway sushi stick!
when from some other angle, I think the South, it is the old set of lourves at the back that rattle and there absolutely nothing that can be done, other than go to bed with the door closed!
At least the noise doesn’t keep you awake at night. Our apartment is old but we’re lucky the windows don’t rattle as long as we keep them closed.
Not where I am at the moment.