bigfishon
11-16-2002, 03:10 PM
I think I would have just wrote the trampoline off and got a new one. Your probably lucky that hing did not come back on you and beat you half to death, or take you on a parasailing adventure. Can you say WEEEEEEEEEE!!! Be carfull in the weather today no sense getting injured...
Jennie@ifish
11-16-2002, 04:04 PM
Two problems with that theory:
One: Polluting the river with garbage, and
Two: This is OUR SECOND TRAMPOLINE!!!!
No more tramps if we aren't going to keep this one! The boys are desperate! :smile:
The winds have not hit us up here like that but WOW!!!! :shocked: :shocked: I would love to have seen a pic of that wall of leaves coming at your house! graemlins/lurk.gif
We staked out trampoline down with BIG tent stakes and have had no trouble from the wind. Makes it hard to mow around it though.
Keep safe!
Jennie@ifish
11-16-2002, 04:47 PM
Yip, that's it. Bill doesn't want to move them all the time.
I think it's silly not to!
Wild Bill
11-16-2002, 05:19 PM
Our neighbor spent an hour and a half cleaning up all the leaves yesterday, today you can't tell she did a thing in her yard. :grin:
Jennie@ifish
11-17-2002, 12:45 AM
What idiots! A drift boat just went up the road, headed for the park! YIKES!
Geesh! This is too scary for me!!!
Ever been outside in 64 mile per hour winds trying to reassemble a trampoline? BBQ lids and huge alder spears, and plant pots flying past your head??? FUN! NOT!
Take a look at the station! GEESH! (http://www.ifish.net/Weather/Kilchis.htm)
The boys dug a "dead man" and placed a large stump in it to tie the tramp to, to keep it locked into place during winter storms.
Bill was supposed to tie it together.
Guess what? Bill forgot to tie it together!
After the first 64 MPH gust, I said to David, "Check the Trampoline!"
"Mom! It's GONE!"
Argh...
What is interesting, is that we get cyclonic winds here. They swirl like a tornado, because of the canyon effect.
OK, get on the Frogg Toggs, and go search for the tramp.
Let me tell you, we could hardly stand up, let alone search...
We found the tramp on the beach, semi unassembled. Springs had flown off during it's flight, and wedged themselves in the ground like a spear. 10 inch springs, dug 5 inches into rocky ground!
So, one gust came and it threw Andrew to the ground, and he hurt his leg, badly... OK, one man out, go inside, Andrew...
David and I drug the tramp halfway up the hill, and then Andrew came back out to help tie it to a tree.
We collected springs as debris flew by at 70 Mph! DUCK!! Incoming BBQ lid!!!!
YIKES!
Anyway, tramp is safe, we still have power, but pity on any drift boating fools!!!!
Oh! There they come back again. Glad they have some sanity. I was about to put a kettle of hot chocolate on the stove for when they came drifting in, boatless.
I have to tell you about the first wind.
The entire canyon hillside still had vine maple leaves on it. The wind hit that mountain all at once, and you could see a huge wall of leaves come stripping off, and swirled to the left and came straight at the house! I mean about a mile high, and a foot thick of leaves! They blasted the house! I watched them coming from a mile off! It was amazing!!!!
It was like.... They are coming... they are coming.... HERE THEY ARE! SPLAT! :smile:
Exciting, these storms, but they can be dangerous! I sincerely hope to ride the rest of this one out, INSIDE the house!
Jen
[ 11-16-2002, 12:50 PM: Message edited by: Jennie@ifish ]
Jettin' Fool
11-17-2002, 12:50 AM
It is getting pretty gusty here in Vancouver....I can imagine what its like down your way :shocked: Make sure you ware a helmet when you venture outside :grin:
Fool