It's insanely windy here in western PA

[Orrex]

If this continues, I'll end up in eastern PA.

[lizziegrace]

1. Just remember your ruby slippers so you can get home

:P

Lelapin called from Columbus and said she's having flashbacks to the Hurricane Ike windstorm that took out her power for almost 6 days. She's a bit unnerved tonight.

[Orrex]

2. I think the whole city of Columbus just blew past my house

Yikes!

[SallyMander]

3. I was in there, wheeeeee!!!!

:rofl:

[Orrex]

4. At this rate, Columbus will be blown all the way to Portugal

Enough already!

[SallyMander]

7. I'd like to see Portugal!

:rofl:

[lizziegrace]

10. Lelapin wants to go back to Venice

Or to see her aunt in England. How are the jet stream running?? ;-)

[SallyMander]

11. Oooh, I'd love to go to Venice!

Are you boycotting her new username? ;)

[lizziegrace]

14. Yes

mainly because I can't remember it. :rofl:

[lizziegrace]

5. How bad is it in Columbus?

As bad as the Ike weekend?

Miss you and Iza. :hug:

[SallyMander]

6. Naw, not like Ike

That day I was *sure* my house was going to blow over... right now, I just *think* my house is going to blow over. ;)

Iza tells me that it's brick, and the little piggies had trouble with that one... :rofl:

We miss you too!!! :hug:

(Did you see he made his first DU post in like a year???)

[lizziegrace]

8. Link??

:rofl:

lurker...

[SallyMander]

9. Here ya go

:D

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8507875#8507912

[lizziegrace]

15. I welcomed him to DU

:P

[SallyMander]

17. ...

:spray:

I told him... I'm sure he is typing a snarky reply right now. :rofl:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

12. Geez, this is putting me through some kind of PTSD

:scared: I keep freaking out when the lights flicker. :P

[SallyMander]

13. Ours are doing that too

It'll be OK :hug:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

16. Aww, thanks

I guess if it hasn't yet gone out, it won't. *knocks on wood* :P :hug:

[lizziegrace]

18. Probably not sweetie

Get some sleep. :hug:

[SallyMander]

19. Yup, and it's supposed to lessen as the night goes on

(I think!)

It has been crazy though!!!

[HopeHoops]

20. Was that you that just flew over Harrisburg? My trashcan is two counties over by now

[Orrex]

21. Well, we got through it

Turns out that we lost about a dozen shingles off of our roof, allegedly brand new just eight years ago. I say allegedly because we've lost, on average, two shingles per year since we bought the house in 2003--not a great track record.

No serious damage to the house or visible elsewhere in the neighborhood, happily--a lot of recycling bins got tossed around and there's detritus a-plenty, but it could have been worse.

How did everyone else in the OH/PA area fare?

[BeachBaby]

22. 60mph right here, right now.

Can't even go to work - trees knocked the power lines down.

[TZ]

23. It was really bad for awhile last night...

It scared me and while one cat went missing cause of the noise...my other cat, whom I am beginning to think is a bit insane..rushed over to the window to see what was causing the fuss. Stayed there for awhile too. :crazy:

[Orrex]

29. It was really overwhelming from about 12:15 to 1:00 this morning

After that, it seemed to taper off, and it didn't wake either of my boys, so that's a plus.

Of course, by that time the shingles had already blown off the roof. I didn't get a final number, but these shingles are apparently rated to 60 mph winds...


Due to the extraordinary generosity of my wonderful mother in law, we replaced our windows in December of 2007, so we were well protected against drafts and full-fledged blowouts. If we'd still had the rickety pre-WWII windows, I shutter to think what might have happened.


That's right. Shutter. And I know that it's a pane.

[TZ]

30. .

ah you are just a big wind bag..:P

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. It's pretty calm in S.E. MI,, after some good wind last night

It woke me up, all that darned roaring outside.

Now it's just a little breezy.

It'll be out of W. PA soon, send it all to NJ etc.

:hi:

[Orrex]

32. The high-wind advisory is in effect until 7:00pm locally, I believe

But all indications are that the worst has passed. I just hope that we don't get too much rain between now and when the repair guy gets here tomorrow!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

25. It's really bad in NW NJ, too

Maybe you'll end up here. The lights keep flickering like crazy.

[Orrex]

31. Our power blinked just once around 12:45

I'm kind of surprised, actually, but I'm not going to complain.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

33. LostinVA's been without power for a few hours at work

Best I can tell is at this point, she's being paid to wander around and talk about American Idol with coworkers, while calling me up to look up inane things on wikipedia for them.

[tigereye]

26. 2 hour school delay near Pittsburgh and the local schools are closed

due to some kind of power outage.


Surprised and glad none of my trees have blown down, well not yet anyway... but my neighbor one street down had a tree blow down into the street...

[LiberalEsto]

27. We've got in in Maryland now

It blows worse than the republican party

[radfringe]

28. I'm from eastern PA

very windy here... if it continues I'll end up in NY or NJ

[Reverend_Smitty]

34. I'm in Central NJ...

and it woke me up around 6am and I thought to myself, "cold front is here"...the wind hasn't stopped since.

[hedgehog]

35. Well, the chickens are staying INSIDE the coop today!

It's that or they'll all learn to fly !

[femmocrat]

36. We got to school today to find that we had no heat, no phones, and only some lights.

Unfortunately, they did not call a delay (then cancellation) before the staff had arrived. Out of 5 buildings, our district had 3 schools closed and two open. There were trees and wires down along my route to school.

People were still driving their children to school because they didn't know about the delay/cancellation. The buses still went around to pick up stray children from street corners. Then we had to call their parents to come and get them! It was a crazy day.

I think there are people around here who still do not have power. Local news said our county (Westmoreland) was one of the hardest hit.