Wind. (updated with local new links and stuff)

"JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t" (jawzx2)
11/01/2019 at 14:47 • Filed to: Farmlopnik, weather, Wind, climate change

The peak recorded gust last night was 74 MPH. We had multiple 60+ gusts and it’s still gusting into the 50s right now. We lost both ends of our barn, though the main cover is still OK *knock on wood* and have a single injured sheep from the resulting stampeding. We have cut off most of the flailing, flapping ends and the main structure sill seems fine. I’m surprised the chicken coop is right side up, actually...

Wind kept me up all night too, so I’m beat.

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DISCUSSION (14)

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
11/01/2019 at 14:42

That was a hell of a storm last night.

facw > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
11/01/2019 at 14:49

Oh no, the sheep house! Assuming sheep are like pigs, I think the lesson here is that you are supposed to build the barn out of bricks?

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
11/01/2019 at 15:23

That’s no bueno, especially in places where it isn’t usually a thing that happens. In Southern NM, we’d just call that spring. We get some number of days per year in the spring where we’ll get 40-50mph sustained winds and gusts in town into the 60-70mpg range. The pass outside of town routinely sees gusts in the 90's, and occasionally a bit higher. They have a few days each spring that blow out side windows on cars on the missile range. They sky turns brown and blowing dust brings visibility down to not much and the interstates all start closing. It’s always a bad day.

HammerheadFistpunch > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
11/01/2019 at 15:41

I freaking hate the wind.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
11/01/2019 at 15:59

yeah, this is a historically fairly windy area, but it’s getting worse.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > facw
11/01/2019 at 16:00

If i could afford a brick barn, I wouldn’ t be raising sheep in the North East Kingdom of Vermont...

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
11/01/2019 at 16:03

came through like a freight train. Our house is a modern post and beam, and it shifted percepti bly in the bigger gusts... the rain was coming down at what our weather station says was a rate of ~1.5 inches/hour during those gusts, so it was like the whole house was going down the interstate at 70 in massive rain storm...

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
11/01/2019 at 16:41

Winds like that around here would cause a world of hurt. However, the rain would be lovely... except like that because the soil erosion would be epic.

Glad to hear you all made it through safely.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
11/01/2019 at 17:05

I’m in the woods so I didn’t feel the full force of the winds but the steel roof on my apartment was making one hell of a racket.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
11/01/2019 at 17:52

W e got plenty of soil erosion :p though there haven’ t been any widespread landslides reported, so that’s nice. Yeah, we got hit hard with the wind, but other places got the water much better and as Mrs. BoostAddict and I were saying: all things considered we probably got the better end of the deal.

Nom De Plume > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
11/01/2019 at 18:44

Are you telling me there is a shortage of rocks to build a wind break on a small artificial hill so the wind goes over instead of into the sheep barn. Or one of those incredibly trendy walls of metal baskets filled with stones.

Hope your animals recover quickly in whatever you were forced to shove them into.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Nom De Plume
11/01/2019 at 18:56

They are back in the main barn, they spent the day of high-wind in the “murder barn”... and as a matt er of fact, all the movable stones were exorcised from this area 150-200 years ago, when it was all clear cut as agri cultural land. S ince then it has refo rested and the stone piles, or stone walls are now bu ried in the woods... the rest of them went to making bridges and houses, which are most ly still in use. The barn is 60x30x20, so it would hardly be a small windbreak. We already HAVE an artificial hill that acts as a break from the west, but this wind was south-west, and very, very serious.

Nom De Plume > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
11/01/2019 at 20:22

My impression of fields in the East is summed up in the old expression about about two pieces of stone for every half piece of soil. Makes sense you already implemented my common sense wind break.

facw > Nom De Plume
11/01/2019 at 22:16

There’s a lot of truth to that. It’s not without reason that a lot of farmland here has gone back to being forest as farms with flatter land, nicer soil, and longer growing seasons opened up. Certainly old stone walls litter the woods, not just in suburbia, but all the way out in to rural areas, where only the best farm lands are still cleared and farmed.