This wind!

[Danaus29]

I know it is nothing like the hurricane winds but boy is it doing some damage! Trees down, shingles blown off roofs, garbage cans sent to the next county, etc. Neighbor to the east lost a big maple, our little mulberry got knocked down and broken by a dead tree falling on it, David is losing some shingles, a real mess to clean up. I hope and pray this stops soon. I can now imagine what it would be like to have to endure a mild hurricane. NO THANKS!

All of you down south keep safe. All of you to the north-west of Ohio put all your stuff away, take off tarps and grill covers and put them away, move your cars out from under trees, glue down your shingles. It's going to get nasty fast!

[Daylilydayzed]

Danus29,
That is tropical winds from the remains of Hurricane Ike. But that is nothing compared with hurricane force wind. That can remove roofs off of houses, send a 2 by four through a tree, a broom straw through glass without shattering it. Hurricane winds can peel roofs off gas stations and send the metal flying down the street. Now you know why we get worried on June 1 every year when Hurricane season starts. We still have to wait until after the 1st of Nove before the storms are ocver for the year.

[Danaus29]

One of my neighbors commented that at least tornados pass through quickly, this has been going on for hours. There would be no way I could sit inside with hurricane shutters tightened and everything tied down listening to the winds roaring across the land with rain blowing sideways and up for days. All of you in hurricane country have my deepest respect.

[herasday]

Hey Rhonda, actually, its coming northeast. We're getting Ike tonight in Central Upstate NY. My wind chimes are having a fit of gonging. Its picking up a few gusts now and has been for about an hour. It may split north and south of me, but were included in the warning.

Today was hot, oppressive, domed overcast, hazy, muggy with temps in the high 80's maybe low 90's. Now, with the breeze, the sky has cleared a bit, there's puffy little clouds here and there, weird looking and underneath a high thick haze with fuzzy stars here and there. When the wind gusts come, its great...fantastic. When they die down out pops the sweat immediately, the kind where showering does no good. I'm going to go out and submerge myself in the pool again before I try to shower and sleep, maybe will go in the pool again after the shower if it isn't storming by then.

I worry about derecho wind a bit. The atmosphere, temps and sky are just like it was all day and then at night when we had giant swath of derecho on Labor Day weekend in 1998 across NYS and also Ohio-PA-NJ-NYC had another derecho towards morning with tornados. The pattern is a lot the same, too with the depression coming through the great lakes.

I posted the warnings out on the tropical weather board, but essentially they said sustained wind of 30 mph with gusts to 45. Not too bad if they are right and it stays that way, but enough to bring down tree limbs, wires and mess things up...its garbage night here, too! Oops, something just blew over on the back deck. Guess I better go check things out again. I took down the ladder I had up on the garage, and rearranged lawn furniture.

[Danaus29]

We didn't get blown away. Haven't finished checking damage yet, have to climb up onto David's roof but so far other than a big clean-up we're fine.

I'm glad Susan is out of harm's way. Property can be replaced, lives can't.

[greenasagourd]

Originally Posted by Danaus29

Property can be replaced, lives can't.

So true! Sorry you lost another tree Rhonda, but I'm so glad you are safe! I hope David can patch his roof before much rain can penetrate. Hope the clean up goes swiftly.

Dee, glad you are preparing. Wishing everyone safety through this extreme storm.

[Dog Mom]

You have my sympathies. It looks like my garage roof was a victim of our wind and hail storm at the end of Aug. Lousy timing -- last year it was the house roof from 4 inch hail, this year the garage roof went from 1.5 inch hail and wind. Deductables!
I found out from the NOAA people that our low dew points here make hail more likely, even though we have fewer and less severe storms. We do get a lot of wind, 20-30 mph is fairly common, with storms having 40-60 mph when they get going. Things do fly around with the winds!

[Frozen_Signal]

it got a bit windy here too...but nothing in the magnitude of what TX thru NY went through by any means....glad everyones ok...

[Pburgh]

Well we had winds up to 70 mph. My electric went off in the middle of the Steelers game on Sunday at about 9:30 p.m. I didn't come to work yesterday. My back porch and back yard looked like a cyclone hit them. Furniture and pots were everywhere and limbs and chestnuts were all over the back yard. My power was off for about 18 hours. I didn't open my refrigerator or freezers so everything stayed cold. About 125,000 people were without power in the Pittsburgh area. We still have about 25,000 people without power.

My heart goes out to those down south.

[irisfan]

We have been without power from about 3 PM Sunday afternoon until this evening about 6 PM. We hade several large trees down in our yard, No damage to the house for which we are thanking GOD.Many of the houses in our area have damage, some from trees going through the roof, One of the industries in town, Jatrol diesel had their roof completely torn off, many of the streets were blocked by downed trees, the pumps that fill the water tanks in town were not working so we had water rationing. There was one person killed in our area from a falling tree, our church had about 40% of the siding peeled off, no one had ice or batteries because of the rush on all the stores, but we are praising the LORD that we are all well and the damage could have been much worse. Look at Galveston!!