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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