Best Blow Ever

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

I've lived in Alaska for awhile. We get shaking, now & then, blown a fair amount, topped off with an occasional volcanic dusting. This weekend a heavy hammer came to town.

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Strong winds hammer Mat-Su, leading to widespread damage and power outages

The winds, reaching up to 91 mph Sunday near Palmer, flipped small planes, overturned semitrucks, toppled trees, tore off roofs and closed Mat-Su schools for at least two days.

www.alaskapublic.org

I remember when I was a kid up there in Alaska , I think in the early 80s late 70’s we had a big wind come through like that and there was tons a little airplanes flipped over over like that , somewhere in our old family photos the kind you used to take to the photo mat

 

[Phaseolus]

Well, mine happened in New Zealand on the Routeburn Trak

 

[BearFoot]

WTH happened to that bank?? Where did all the water come from? Did they have a sprinkler system on the roof???

Fred Meyers in Palmer. Blew some roof off and exposed the sprinkler system I believe.

 

[BearFoot]

It's amazing, I live 15 miles away and hardly a breath for most of that storm. My FIL had to fetch his snowmachine trailer out of the street. Hard to imagine wind that could blow a flatbed trailer down the road.

These winds always come through like high flood rivers. Certain channels very turbulent.

 

[BearFoot]

Plumbing parts wiped out locally.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Everybody from Wyoming looks at these and nods, thinking, yep, that was Tuesday.

Every Tuesday.

Forever.

Then they fall over when the wind stops.