Here comes the high Santa Ana winds again. It would be nice to just go a week without the winds blowing everything off the railroad.
Bob, but look at it this way, every week you get a “clean slate” to work with.
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Freakish Spring-like Thunderstorm Yesterday got my Yagi…
Is that one for 6M SSB Cale?
bob we are running a cycle on the Santa Ana (foehn) winds about every three days the worst will roll in on monday of this event.
I can truely say that I don’t miss the Santa Ana winds. When we lived in the Glen Avon - Peddly area I lost the front section of my roof 3 years in a row. Good luck guys.
11 element for 2m FM Simplex, 220Mhz J-Pole stacked on top
I live in the Santa Ana Canyon that the winds are named for. They can blow in excess of 60 mph. I have to bring all of my structures (>50) in before October 1 and can’t put them back out until after April 30.
We are having the backyard redone and a month ago we had a new Jacuzzi delivered that has been standing on its side next to my bedroom window. Every time the winds blow, I fear that it will get blown over and come into the bedroom at 4:00 AM. If it can survive another week, the pad should be ready.
My only timber mast broke in high winds early last year. The other three masts are metal and a very large holly tree serves as an end fixing for a W3DZZ type trapped di-pole.
A quick replacement was soon assembled and as I ran trains I often thought it would be nice to increase the height of the timber mast.
Given the ferocious winds of recent times I have to say that I am glad that I didn’t.
I think we got the left overs from the Santa Ana yesterday. Blew some of my equipment off the track also. Later RJD
Yep, they are starting now and here in Fontana winds should hit 50 to 60 mph. Oh well, now that train operations are over for a few days its time to install that cab light in my K-36 I have been putting off.
Since we are on the topic, how high (approximately) does the wind have to be to topple a large scale train off the tracks?
When its real windy here, I don’t play trains, instead I find stuff to do inside.
Bob Russell said:
Yep, they are starting now and here in Fontana winds should hit 50 to 60 mph. Oh well, now that train operations are over for a few days its time to install that cab light in my K-36 I have been putting off.
AND we should be around 85 degrees by Tuesday. Extreme fire danger here in the Burbank Hills!
I would estimate that large scale cars from Bachman are good up to about 20 mph. LGB is good up to about 30 mph and that’s all I ran on our club layout in Lancaster, Ca, yesterday.
We feel lucky where we live in Pinon Hills because we don’t get Santa Ana winds. But instead we get “dust devils” which are like g scale tornados. But we had one a few years ago that striiped the roof off part of the house!
When the temps fall to about 10 degrees and 3’ of snow with the 40 mph wind, maybe, just maybe, I’ll have a bit of sympathy…
luckily I think we are out of the immediate blow zone, I hate the winds they tend to everyone elses leaves into our yard.
The last 100 mph wind we had a few years ago did put our 14x14 metal building on top of our fence! And take out about 100 power poles. But that’s not the kind of wind we get normally.
I have lost a few shingles off the roof in the past years but nothing bad so far this year.
Don
We’ve had wind storms with steady winds of 40 kts and gust to 60 for the last several years, here in beautiful downtown Deer Park. I keep hoping that it will blow off my roof, so insurance will help pay for a replacement, but so far, no joy.
Fairly strong winds last night and this morning. Although I live in the Santa Ana River Canyon, Anaheim Hills, so the Santa Ana winds are nothing new to me.
My train layouts here are indoors (O and HO scale).