Wow, 80 mph winds here...

[lasersailor184]

Rosco, take a look here:  http://www.tacticat.com .  It's a neat little game I've found recently.  And by neat, I mean frickin amazing.

[Debonair]

• Wellington also has an average of 22 days per year with mean wind speeds over 63 km/h (40 knots).

• Wellington averages 173 days a year with wind gusts greater than about 60 km/h or 32 knots.

[Vulcan]

Originally posted by Debonair
:mad

Look its just windy as hell here OK

We also have the most exciting airport to land at in the world. Its as close as you can probaby get to landing on a CV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_LaAkAyoz0

Notice how the runway ain't flat, its on purpose.

[ByeBye]

Originally posted by Vulcan
Look its just windy as hell here OK

We also have the most exciting airport to land at in the world. Its as close as you can probaby get to landing on a CV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_LaAkAyoz0

Notice how the runway ain't flat, its on purpose.

Convert that wind into power, then rule the world!

[Angus]

Iceland is a windy arse too.
We don't get those Hurricanes, but we sure go close, - in a more conventional way, and nearby there are a few examples of some 125 mph on a 10 minute average. Wind "knocks" can go high enough to toss Lorries and containers like paperboxes. I think the dump record for a 10 wheeler was something like 900 metres!
Unfortunately, windfarming in such places is expensive, - the things have to be advanced and rugged to handle the extremes.
Right where I live, it's a little better, and I've been looking for the mechanism to generate some 10KW or so. Anyone in on that stuff?

[Ripsnort]

A friend from another board, who lives in our area: His wife and he were not at home when the storm struck, as you can see,  he and his wife are very lucky!

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
yeager, rosco, you guys get power back on? We just got ours back up an hour ago. I've been running on generator for 2 days.  couple big firs took out my deck on the cliff edge. Pics tomorrow....
Local guy who has a weather station thingy said 80 mph winds here in the foothills. about 20 miles from here at Chinook pass they recored 100 mph winds.

The real question is how much better Boeing is than Airbus in that kind of weather and how the subsidies Airbus gets plays a big part in that.

[Yeager]

Rip, we were down from about 12:30am friday to 11:45pm saturday.

I slept through the damn thing....didnt even hear the wind blowin lol

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Yeager
Rip, we were down from about 12:30am friday to 11:45pm saturday.

I slept through the damn thing....didnt even hear the wind blowin lol

Wish I could sleep like that!

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
A friend from another board, who lives in our area: His wife and he were not at home when the storm struck, as you can see,  he and his wife are very lucky![/img]

Thats an odd place to plant a tree

anywho... is that your beeeemer or do you have beemoholic friends too?

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Nilsen
Thats an odd place to plant a tree

anywho... is that your beeeemer or do you have beemoholic friends too?

No, that is his bimmer. He'a an aquaintence from a BBS that lives in the area.

[Roscoroo]

Ripper's you believe that some guys are still outta power here ...

A pal  stopped by today ...said they been out for 6 days .(he has a fishtank full of casualties )

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Roscoroo
Ripper's you believe that some guys are still outta power here ...

A pal  stopped by today ...said they been out for 6 days .(he has a fishtank full of casualties )

Yikes!
I had to move my son's fishtanks into my office during our 2 day power outage (we don't run the generator at night and the house temp drops to 58 deg, thus we need to keep the water temp up)

During the 1992 Inauguration day storm (which I dubbed "what the liberals get for voting Clinton in office, which still gets laughs from the wife...) my inlaws in Federal Way were without power for 2 fricking weeks!  Federal Way! Big city! 80,000 people! Unfortunately they were on one of those feeder lines where only 3 houses were on the same line, which is why they get power last.

The first thing they repair in major storms like this is the main transmission lines (obviously) then the sub-stations, then power lines near fire departments, police stations and hospitals, then they start working the neighborhoods based on how many people are on the feeders. That's what I've been told anyway....