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Disaster Strikes, Oh @#$%!

General Discussion
#1

I’ve been back in this part of Idaho for Twenty years. I have only seen the kind of wind that we have experienced in the last couple of years when I lived in California and we use to get the “Santa Ana Winds”. Well last night we got hit again. When I walked out the back door this morning I noticed what use to be an old barn that was given to me by a friend in our train club. The pictures show the barn located on my layout and the aftermath. It was a nice old weatherd barn. I guess this will be added to my projects for this winter. I hate wind!!! Chuck

#2

Bummer!
It looks totally fixable though

#3

Holy Smokes! That looks like normal afternoon winds at Doug’s house.

#4

As long as there isn’t a little girl and a small dog nexy to it saying “Toto I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore” it will be OK.

#5

That was a nice looking barn!

#6

Not good for such a nice barn

#7

That really sucks, that was such a good looking barn. Guess you’ll have to do like they do in Alberta and stake it too the ground.
Ron

#8

I’ve had that happen more than once. Usually it’s just the roof of one building or another, though I do have a coal tipple that’s been blown over a few times and a station that got tumbled a few feet. I do bring the tipple inside when they call for strong winds, but most of the layout has survived even a hurricane this year.

Nice looking barn, but it looks to be fixable…:wink:

#9

Luckily we don’t get Santa Ana winds because we are on the desert but we can get big winds from the north in the Spring. One time we had a gust of 110 mph that picked up a 14’x14’ building and dumped it upsidedown on a fence.

I have tied most of my buildings down but if we got wind like you got it would probably just blow the building apart! Looks like a winter project to me!

#10

That is not a good happening Chuck. It looks like a repair is possible; I hope it is.

My place, on a headland, is usually windy - from one direction or another. Light weight structures are placed in very sheltered locations, usually beneath bushes, but the majority of my structures are built with lumber - the sort you use for decking or garden furniture - and as such are usually heavy enough the stand up to the winds such as the 60 mph gusting ones we had today.

#11
Victor Smith said:
As long as there isn't a little girl and a small dog next to it saying "Toto I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" it will be OK.
The little girl and the dog are OK. It's them flying monkeys that'll get you ...
#12

Doug get ready - Santa Ana’s forecast for late tomorrow night through Friday, guests to 70mph, so maybe his barn was a warning !

#13

Nah, wre ready! I don’t know about Lake Arrowhead!

#14

I’m more worried about the projected extremely low humidity and the risk of fire.

#15

You are right. They have started canceling time off for firefighters.

And the wind is starting to stir in the last hour.

#16

Wind began last night around 8pm. Power has been out at home since midnight last, branches down up and down street, one narrowly missed my car. Canopy is backyard collapsed. Fence is barely standing. Definetly HURRICANE force winds. Pasadena has declared an Emergency, schools are closed. Power out all over the city. Even Schmart-phone service has been spotty.

#17

Good luck Victor - hope things don’t get much worse. This has been one crazy year for the power companies.

#18

ditto what Jon said

#19

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Well so far here is the worst of it, although we did loose a few shingles off the garage, hopefully the wind tonight will be less foracious. I’ll fix the garage this weekend. This is a gazabo that had its canvas cover ripped off by wind at the beginning of summer, this time the wind grabbed those tightly folded curtains like a sail and pushed it across the pavers until the legs collapsed. One neighbors fence disintigrated, the others had a gazabo that got pummeled and they lost part of their roof over the patio. There are trees, branches, yard stuff piled up just everywhere. The city came thru the streets very quickly and by afternoon had all the major branches and blockages cut up and cleared off our street, but their is still a tremendous amount of folage laying on the ground in other areas. Spent 4 hours raking what could into the yard can, what was left (4X can loads) is piled in the street, like everyone else. It was a dry hurricane, all the wind just not the wet, thank goodness.

#20

well so far no large fires as a result of the winds, even though we are prepared. Big Bear did get a foot of snow today, while here in Arrowhead, we just had flurrys.

I did hear from the Eastern Sierras that they had recorded gusts to 158mph and had a significant blow down event (several hundred trees.)

Some folks at the weather service think there is a chance of additional winds over the weekend (warm/dry)… we will see.

John