One of the disadvantages of living at the top of the hill overlooking open space is that we get a lot of wind in the winter. Last night and this morning, it’s unusually bad. According to the web, the highest gust last night was 82. I think it’s blowing pretty steadily at about 50 to 60 mph right now.
The wind is so bad it:
- blew 5 Christmas trees across the park into our yard (there’s a drop-off point for old trees about 1/4 mile away) – that’s right, entire blue spruce trees are blowing across the park as if they’re tumbleweeds
- blew one of the gutter downspouts right off the side of the house (who knows where it is now, maybe Nebraska)
- blew my Weber grill apart (the remains are in the yard)
- is making the ceiling in the top floor of the house squeak as the negative pressure tries to pull off the roof
- makes me nervous to stand by the back door for fear the glass is going to explode
I foolishly tried to open the back door and then thought better of it.
I watched a neighbor pick roof tiles up from the street. Maybe they were his, maybe they were ours … who knows? But spying roofs from our upstairs windows suggests there’s a lot of damage.