Re: Hurricane at DML HQ!

From: andy levy (andy-dml@levyclan.us)
Date: Tue Jul 26 2005 - 21:10:17 EDT


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On 7/26/2005 18:14, jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
| Ok, so maybe it wasn't a hurricane, but its about as close as we
| come in these parts. A storm just came out of Lake Erie and caught
| everyone by surprise. It was moving across the ground at about 50mph.
| I heard the thunder coming and went to park the convertible in the
| garage, and just *barely* got it inside before getting dumped on.
| I have no idea what the wind speeds were but they had to be 60-80mph.
| I ran down to the barn (dodging dropping tree branches on the way) to
| close the door, got there within 20 seconds of the rain starting, but
| the inside was already soaked. Even the interior of my Cuda got rain
| in it, and it was parked in the barn, 35-40 feet from the door. My
welder
| and plasma cutter got blown 5 feet across the floor, and there was water
| everywhere. The gutters from one half of the house are set up to drain
| into a pond behind the house, it exits out of a 4" piece of PVC, which
| had a solid 4" diameter stream of water pouring out of it. The steel
| pole that my windsock is on got bent, and the windsock itself was
shredded.
| I think we may have just had more rain in 10 minutes than we've received
| all year.

That same cold front ripped through here about 6:30 tonight. Pretty
wild weather, luckily it didn't last long.

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