holy moly....

[fitness1]

had a little scare last night......I had a couple of clients just finishing their warmup and we headed to one of the other rooms for a leg workout.    One side of my house is southwest facing with a reasonable amount of glass.  We had seen the sky darkening and knew there was supposed to be some heavy rain coming, but all of a sudden things started bouncing off the side of the house and blowing down the street at a high rate of speed.   They both decided to make an exit and about a minute later......



this is was about a 9 iron from my front door.   The experts said there were only 70 mph linear winds...not so sure about that!   I was walking back from taking this picture and a very large transformer blew about the same distance away on the other side of my place and the whole downtown area was out of power for about 20 hours or so....
nice to be back online....

[roknroll]

nothing like a good ol midwestern storm...what kind of wood is that...lol

[fitness1]

seems like it was maple, but I'm not sure  :GRN>

[FNG]

...what kind of wood is that...lol

Fire.

[roknroll]

Fire.

does thaet makee in guud gitars?

[Steve]

'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud
I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

[dberch]

Glad no one was hurt.  We lost a similar sized tree last month and half of one this month.

[roknroll]

you guys are starting to scare me w/ these stories...there's a huge oak tree outside my window...my parents have been trying for a few years to get my neighbors to at least trim it back...I literally have owls nesting like 12 feet away from my window..and racoons...I'm just waiting to wake up next to some strange woodland creature...or wake up to the crash of a tree coming through my house.

[Fergy07]

nasty.

Andy

[Sabatini]

this is was about a 9 iron from my front door.   

Please define the distance more precisely.  My 9 iron shots vary from 10 feet behind me to 175 yards in front of me, depending on how I swing, how fat/thin I hit the ball, and how dry the ground is. :mellow:

[fitness1]

Please define the distance more precisely.  My 9 iron shots vary from 10 feet behind me to 175 yards in front of me, depending on how I swing, how fat/thin I hit the ball, and how dry the ground is. :mellow:

haha somewhere between 105 and 115 yards depending on how mad I am already.....

[naboz]

Todd, that was the same storm that I just finished cleaning up from!  Take the top half of that tree and lay it on our phone lines and across the driveway...I think the shearing wind was at about 30 ft., as many down the I-94 corridor were the same.

[HangFire]

Geez, hope no one got hurt!

[naboz]

Not at my place, HF.  As soon as I saw it laying on the lines, we had the call in and left it alone.    Phone service was great and out the next morning w/the high bucket to cut it down!