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sub4hire -> The Wind? (4/15/2008 11:00:36 AM)
I have a question for all. Just general knowledge. In Southern California they have the Santa Ana winds. You can pretty much guarantee each and every year the first week of October trash cans are going to be rolling down the street. They blow other times of the year but historically it was October. My father passed away in Jan 06. If you had listened to him in the years prior to his passing he would tell you how he was going to haunt this person and that person "if" he could when the time came. Oddly enough the day he passed the wind started blowing harder than I had ever remembered it. It actually ripped stuff off of the house. He also did not die too much later than the tsunami that rocked the Earth off of its core by a few degrees. Well, we were finally free to move away from the state. Pretty much everyone knows we moved to the middle of the country. I used to love the wind, it would blow all of the smog away. It was a cleansing experience. Here it blows ALL OF THE TIME. Last week we were in a restaurant locally here. Some older men were saying how they don't know where all the wind went. I wanted to barge into their conversation and say come over to our house, its all there. Anyway its just another typical day here in Northeast NE the wind is blowing at 45 mph. We have no smog to blow away...just wind and more wind. So, has anyone noticed the wind is blowing more now than it did in years past?

pahunkboy -> RE: The Wind? (4/15/2008 11:14:13 AM)
No. I moved from Chicago to PA in 1988. I thought everywhere had wind. I dont think there is anymore or any less in Central PA. I have noticed as I age, that I am more cognizant of weather systems, patterns. The pain levels were the trigger. Oh- spring is the windyest season in PA. Windyier then fall, summer or winter. Here is the east winds come from the west or up the coast. when they drag to the ocean then return to land they can be potent. I live on a highway- so the smog could blow away faster. Interesting topic Gloria. :-)

windchymes -> RE: The Wind? (4/15/2008 11:15:47 AM)
LOL....I lived in very southern New Jersey for three years, down near Cape May, which is at the tip of the little peninsula of land that juts out at the southern end of the state. I lived 2 blocks from the Delaware Bay and 4 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. Starting in about October, the winds start coming across the bay, vicious, icy, gale- force winds, that blow all winter long, almost non-stop. The wind chimes I hung out on the deck when I was new to the area clanged like church bells until they came down completely. I lost one trash can, but you just adopt the next one that comes along, lol. I think it's just a regional thing, probably due to trade winds, atmospheric conditions related to the earth's seasonal tilting on it's axis, topography of the land....or whatever, lol. All I know is that it feels great to live inland again, though I miss the salt air....

faerytattoodgirl -> RE: The Wind? (4/15/2008 11:17:42 AM)
wind messes up my hair...UGH

popeye1250 -> RE: The Wind? (4/15/2008 12:12:56 PM)
It's windy as hell here today. We get storms rolling out of the mountains in the Western Carolinas and barreling across the flatlands to the ocean here occaisionally. Sometimes the rain can be horizontal. We had a lot of wind when I lived in New Hampshire too. New England is one of the windiest parts of the country. I think Milton, Massachusetts is the windiest area in the whole U.S.

LilMissHaven -> RE: The Wind? (4/15/2008 12:16:19 PM)
The wind really is kicking butt today isn't it? But, Nebraska has always been a windy state due to the flatness of the land. One of the states hit hardest by the dust bowl, etc.

LaTigresse -> RE: The Wind? (4/15/2008 12:40:02 PM)
Here in Iowa, late spring and early summer.......always windy. I love being home alone this time of year with no tv or stereo on. Just listening to the wind howl around my little house on the hill. Watching the storms roll in across the fields.

sub4hire -> RE: The Wind? (4/15/2008 1:02:10 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: pahunkboy I thought everywhere had wind. I dont think there is anymore or any less in Central PA. I have noticed as I age, that I am more cognizant of weather systems, patterns. The pain levels were the trigger. I think everywhere does have wind. If you read the responses to this thread, everywhere does have wind. I'm just wondering if the intensity of it has increased. To, me I think it has, but then again maybe it hasn't. The windiest season here, its every season. It can be 2 degrees outside here in the winter and I'm not cold, but the wind always blows so I get cold. Like today is the warmest day since last October but the wind is blowing so bad..its hard to tell. About the only time the wind isn't blowing is on those warm summer nights when you want to sit out on the deck and can't. Because the bugs are eating you like a buffet. If the wind were around at those times...we wouldn't be turned into a common buffet.

pahunkboy -> RE: The Wind? (4/15/2008 1:06:45 PM)
in the valley- during winter- we get cold or snow- seldom both. higher elevations is colder- I dont know if windier. Ild say wind can be regional. Less here then towns near the great lakes.

wulfgarw -> RE: The Wind? (4/19/2008 1:10:44 AM)
Wind is good for me. I work building the towers for large windmills. It means I'll be staying busy.

Termyn8or -> RE: The Wind? (4/19/2008 6:30:53 AM)
I know about all the wind being at my house. I live about three houses away from the top of a hill. All the streets dead end at the hill and there is a sidestreet connecting them. If I am parking on the street I turn right at the street before mine so I can park on the legal side of the street. It was a windy day, but here was a different story. As I neared my left turn onto the sidestreet it whipped up and up from the hill comes pieces of trees, ROCKS and all kinds of debris. I capitalized rocks because these were definitely not stones. And all this shit hits MY car. To this day I don't know how I got out of it without having to get a new windshield. Yes, due to the lay of the land we enjoy temperatures averaging eight degrees cooler than most of the rest of the city. This is great in the summer as we enjoy low cooling bills. But then winter comes and in the long run it probably costs more. Even before natural gas skyrocketed we had single month usage gas bills up to $400, now with what happened to the rates these last couple years we decided to go on the budget plan. I used to enjoy not having a gas bill in the summer, but oh well. In this fairly well treed area we get a heaping helping of downed limbs as well. I just hope too many don't go down. The way it is now the tree out front totally occludes the view out my front windows. I just use a powerful exhaust fan elsewhere in the house and suck in the cool air from the tree. There have been years in which I did not turn the AC on at all. Also of note, the siding on all these houses around here is attached very firmly. That is a logical deduction because any that isn't is no longer attached. Luckily my favorite tree branches survived the winter, and are starting to bud. In a month, you would not know you live on a street looking out my front windows. I like that. Bad, bad wind. Err, except when it's real hot out. T

sub4hire -> RE: The Wind? (4/19/2008 6:36:01 AM)
Yep, same here Termy. Last winter we had a tree that had to be a minimum of a hundred years old fall down in front of us on our way down the hill and out of town. Of course the people who owned the house didn't even walk outside to see what their tree did. The city council members ended up having to clear off the street. The wind blows so much here..its pretty much always blowing around 15 mph. Some days much worse. I cringe everytime it hits over 30 because of my greenhouse. I didn't build it to withstand tornado winds on a normal basis. Tomorrow we are forecast for 45-50 mph again. Today we get a break..only 25-30.

Leatherist -> RE: The Wind? (4/19/2008 6:38:16 AM)
Sounds like a great place for free energy. http://www.otherpower.com/

sub4hire -> RE: The Wind? (4/19/2008 6:39:53 AM)
You'd think? Actually Nebraska is ranked only on a 4 for the wind power scale. Not high at all. It will be solar at my house...when I need to replace the roof on one of the garages...we've already decided it will become a solar roof.

Leatherist -> RE: The Wind? (4/19/2008 6:58:17 AM)
Whatever works and gets you off the grid reliance.

sub4hire -> RE: The Wind? (4/19/2008 7:02:18 AM)
harnessing the wind sounds good. I've even considered builing my own wind farm. Someday I will but it will probably be in Colorado..not here. I've been an environmentalist since I was born...so what works for the envioronment will work for me. This is what I will be using when the time comes. Hopefully they get a bit cheaper before I need them. Right now the cost is 70,000 for the roof. http://www.solar-components.com/pvshingl.htm

cjan -> RE: The Wind? (4/19/2008 8:41:26 AM)
Please ask your duppy daddy to keep right on blowin'. It makes my boat go.

popeye1250 -> RE: The Wind? (4/19/2008 9:06:21 AM)
Ya'll need to plant some TREES in Nebraska.

DDraigeuraid -> RE: The Wind? (4/19/2008 9:08:54 AM)
Here in Hawaii, not only does the wind figure into the weather, but also the topography. It can be raining for days where I live, but just 7 miles down the coast it is warm and sunny. The trades have backed off the past few days, and the vog is seteling in. Very light breezes this morning. I was working on a house last summer about 5 miles away. The wind there was howling down the mountain all the time, sometimes up to 50 mph. Dragon

DDraigeuraid -> RE: The Wind? (4/19/2008 9:11:18 AM)
quote: Ya'll need to plant some TREES in Nebraska. There is actually a national forest in Nebraska. Both of the trees are doing well. Dragon

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