What Wind?

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Weather forecasters were working overtime to instill fear about high winds coming to the area. They did make a distinction with altitude, saying the wind would be much stronger above 3,500 feet. The words were sobering about trees limbs coming down, power outages, and stability of high vehicles. It was to last from 7:00 pm until 1:00 pm the following day. I’m sure I would have heard the wind before I went to bed before midnight. I heard nothing alarming. The power went off during the night, which I knew about because I could see a clock blinking. I woke at the usual time, still not aware of wind.

Two who were aware of wind were neighbor Joyce and daughter Lise. Joyce said she didn’t sleep well because of the noise. Although Lise was 4,443 miles away in Denmark (Life360), she texted me about the weather. She saw a lot of posts about how strong the wind was all through the night. She wanted to know was it bad for me?

I noticed nothing unusual until I crossed the front porch, going out for the morning walk. Rain water had blown a few feet in from the edge. By this time the sky was clear, and the sun was about to come up. There was no wind to speak of, and only a few small limbs were on the road between my house and the stop sign.

As I turned into my street, almost home, the wind hit me in the face. It died down almost immediately. Here is a video of the daffodils in a neighbor’s yard.

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Published by Anne Mehrling

I'm a retiree who loves to write about life in the mountains of North Carolina.

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  2. You are fortunate! Several things blew over here (including a fence panel, but on the whole, it did not do any serious damage that I can see thus far. It did wake me up several times in the night when something would hit the house. My daffodils are lying on the ground, face down. 😦

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  5. Over the past few days we’ve had endless advisory warnings about high winds, but none have happened. Not complaining, but also a bit baffled by the announcements.

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  6. We’ve had similar forecasts with rain for today and so far nothing bad. It’s raining but not super hard and the wind is mild. The worst was supposed to happen this afternoon so it should be ending soon. Not disappointed at all!

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  7. We have wicked winds blowing out there now and will be overnight as well. I never remember high winds occurring so often, for weeks on end, not just the “March winds” from the little singsong ditty. These are gusty, damaging winds. We’ve had rain for two days, but overnight it will drop 30 degrees and become a wintry mix – oh joy for that.

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      1. It turned to freezing rain and caused umpteen accidents this morning. The wind has finally died down – I felt like Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz” when I went out to run the car as it was in single digits this morning. The Winter that won’t quit.

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  9. Daffodils! I can’t wait to see signs of Spring here soon.

    I’m glad you were able to rest and not worry about the wind. We have high winds fairly often. When I lie in bed at night (and it’s quiet), the wind causes my apartment to sound like a creaking pirate ship. 🙂

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  11. We have had insane winds this year. Spring cleanup is going to be rough! Can’t believe you have flowers in bloom already. Glad you had a peaceful night.

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  12. Sometimes it’s a good thing to be left out..only once have I been concerned about the high wind and it was scary…my daffy are almost gone but I do love seeing them surprise us .

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