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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ripsnort on December 16, 2006, 10:51:30 PM
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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.:eek:
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yea , we were out for around 16 hrs or so... All the tree's missed us , wind gusts hit about 70mph here .
The Everett and north guys got lucky there power stayed on .
Haven't heard from Newman , or Silat yet (i heard portland got hit pretty hard to )
Good to hear you and your's are OK Rip :aok
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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.:eek:
I was wondering about you Rip. I remembered that you had a generator and were well prepared for stuff like this.
Pretty freaky weather. Glad you guys are okay.
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Sunny and 78 in North Texas today. ;)
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Never lost my power, but my girlfriend was missing it for a day and a half in the "rich people" section of town. ;)
Originally posted by rpm
Sunny and 78 in North Texas today. ;)
Pfsh...boring.
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Originally posted by rpm
Sunny and 78 in North Texas today. ;)
:D
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Short video of the winds at the Quest Field. The game was delayed by 15 minutes because 2" of rain dropped in a 10 minute period, as you can see the field is completely flooded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_xxPTYuRUI
My son won two tickets to the Club level seating when he won Defensive player of the game in one of his regular season games of football this past fall, so we used them. Very nice seats! Too rich for my blood. Wife had to sit in our normal 300 level seats. :lol
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I know a little bit about wind...
Los Angeles blows, Trona sucks, and we're caught in the middle.
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Originally posted by Sandman
I know a little bit about wind...
Los Angeles blows, Trona sucks, and we're caught in the middle.
Must be pefect for flying the kites. ;)
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80mph - is that all? Jebuz Rip we don't get interested until we're at around 180km/h here.
FYI on where I live:
Wellington wind summary:
• Wellington is located in a River of Wind - a wind corridor between the South Island and the North Island.
• Wellington is the windiest main centre in New Zealand with a mean annual wind speed of 22 km/h.
• 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.
• October is generally the windiest month of the year with a mean of 27 days with wind speeds over 15 knots, 19 of those days are over 20 knots.
• North is by far the most common wind direction, blowing from this direction (0 degrees) a massive 37.6% of the time.
• Wellington is one of the windiest cities in the world (possibly the windiest) and is windier than other southern windy cities including Cape Town, Perth, and Geraldton.
• The strongest wind speeds where recorded at Hawkins Hill of 248km/h (134 knots) on the 6 November 1959 and 4 July 1962.
Apparently according to the official council site we have on average 61 days a year where the wind gusts over 93km/h.
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out on the coast the winds are alot faster but here in puget sound they collide together and we end up with a north and south wind converging ,, this makes for some huge lightning storms ... then with trees all over the place and logged out valleys we have lotsa stuff that breaks during winds over 50mph ussually.
we kinda live in a weird climate you can go from ocean to rain forest to high mountian to desert to grasslands within a 300 mile radius ,add our active volcano and the tendency for the ground to shake alot makes for some exciting days .
put it simply most of us dont even notice the earthquaking til it gets over 3.0-3.5
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Originally posted by Roscoroo
out on the coast the winds are alot faster but here in puget sound they collide together and we end up with a north and south wind converging ,, this makes for some huge lightning storms ... then with trees all over the place and logged out valleys we have lotsa stuff that breaks during winds over 50mph ussually.
we kinda live in a weird climate you can go from ocean to rain forest to high mountian to desert to grasslands within a 300 mile radius ,add our active volcano and the tendency for the ground to shake alot makes for some exciting days .
put it simply most of us dont even notice the earthquaking til it gets over 3.0-3.5
Yep...then pack fir and cedar trees about 5 feet apart, 100 feet high, standing 20 feet from either side of most out lying roads and anything over 50mph is a recipe for disaster. Fir and Cedar have shallow root structures below ground. In Ennis, MT, 50 mph winds and higher are commonplace, but the trees only grow about 25 feet high, and are sparse in growth.
In the PNW, anything over 50mph is gonna bring alot of power lines down as well as *roofs.
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(http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/M_IMAGE.10f765715f3.93.88.fa.d0.17b6d485.jpg)
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Makes you want to take up sailing, doesn't it?
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Alot of us Sail . we pass around sailboats like handme down clothes ..ive had 6 boats over the years and currently have a 19' cat on perma borrow .
whats cool is you learn on the smaller lakes then move up to the sound then eventually the ocean .
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Originally posted by Roscoroo
we kinda live in a weird climate you can go from ocean to rain forest to high mountian to desert to grasslands within a 300 mile radius ,add our active volcano and the tendency for the ground to shake alot makes for some exciting days .
put it simply most of us dont even notice the earthquaking til it gets over 3.0-3.5
Kinda the same here, cept I wouldn't call it rainforest. Including the earthquakes but we don't notice them til they hit 5. We sit on a significant faultline (see the arrows)...
(http://www.teara.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/B60AC3A3-BDBA-47B5-B141-DC13CF7C947B/113657/p4363gns.jpg)
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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.
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• 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.
:mad: :mad: :furious :furious :furious :furious :furious :furious :noid
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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.
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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!
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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?
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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!
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c175/Cleanwilly/DSC04066_edited.jpg)
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c175/Cleanwilly/DSC04054.jpg)
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c175/Cleanwilly/DSC04069.jpg)
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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.:eek:
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. :D
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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
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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! :eek:
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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?
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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.
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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 )
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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....