Holy Hurricane Batman!

[Lured In]

Okay...now all I have to wait for is one of the giant Douglas Firs in my back yard to come crashing down. My yard is littered with most of the branches from them, so I figure the rest of the tree will want to join the branches on the ground! :shocked: [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img]


GREATER PORTLAND METRO AREA-GREATER VANCOUVER AREA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FOREST GROVE...BEAVERTON...GRESHAM...OREGON
CITY...LA CENTER...BATTLEGROUND...VANCOUVER...CAMAS
900 AM PST THU DEC 04 2003

...HIGH WIND WARNING THROUGH THIS EVENING...
...STRONG WINDS POSSIBLE AGAIN FRIDAY NIGHT...

.TODAY...WINDY. CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE MORNING...THEN RAIN. HIGHS 45
TO 50. EAST WIND 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH EXCEPT
GUSTS TO 60 MPH NEAR THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE AND TO 70 MPH IN THE
HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF CLARK COUNTY.
.TONIGHT...RAIN...WINDY. LOWS IN THE MID 40S. SOUTH WIND 20 TO 30
MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH.
.FRIDAY...RAIN...WINDY. HIGHS AROUND 50. SOUTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH
SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH 10 TO 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...RAIN...WINDY. LOWS AROUND 45. SOUTHEAST TO EAST WIND
INCREASING TO 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH.

[skein]

One man's poison is another man's perfume (or sumpthin like that). When I see a weather report like that I clap my hands together and think, "Ducks!"



If you go hunting with me you won't even be home when it falls. :shocked:

If a tree falls in your back yard and nobody's home to hear it, did it ..... " [img]graemlins/dork.gif[/img]

Skein

[Troller]

We are getting hit hard up north of you guys in washington. I live in the eastern part of king County gusts up to 80 mph so far. Power has been out as of 4:45 am this morning. No problems down here at work near seattle . I know what I will be doing this weekend burning branches the yard looked like a disaster zone this morning. They are advising people to stay in their houses and not travel any of the roads untill it is over. I am thinking this is going to be along commute home with no street lights for 16 miles.

[lost_sailor]

It's amazing how flexible those big guys are!

We had one break in half back in '95, when the ice storm was followed by a wind storm. This was just before the great flood. Ah, what a winter that was!

I heard "crack, crack, SNAP!" - looked up out the window and saw a tree coming out of the sky, then CRUNCH went the back deck. We were lucky, it missed the house by about this much: [ ]

[Lured In]

Skein...don't think the ducks didn't cross my mind at about 230am this morning when I woke to the wind blowing. But my wife mumbled something about "NO WAY" and "you have to get the kids on the bus" and "don't you have to work!?!" [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]

LS that's my biggest fear. We have about 9 large doug firs (70'+) on our little 10K square foot piece of paradise. Being at the mouth of the gorge and about 600 feet up on the east side, we get beat when the wind blows like this. I have one tree that would fall on the house and 2 that would fall on our neighbors house. :shocked: :blush: