Wild Weather
 

Just wondering how you guys are doing with the wild weather we have been getting the last couple days. So far I've been pretty lucky, only had one small apple tree come down and a couple branches. My guess is the tractors will be doing a bit of storm cleanup work.

Looked like a 4th of July fireworks show last night with the lightning storm we got.

It was rough here last night. Jenn and I were coming home from Walmart and seen some downed trees and power lines. Tried three different ways to get home. I have some clean up to do later.

We had a pretty bad one here also, haven't seen any trees down and the garden stood up to it just fine. The lightening show looked like an ac/dc concert though. I walked outside about 10 and no sooner than I opened the door a big bolt struck right in the middle of my driveway causing the hair on my arms to jump up and down..lol

About 20 miles north of us got the worst of it last night and many people still without electric. We had about 30 minutes of rain and a lot of lightning. Looks like our tomato plants are about all that is going to make it. But if we don't get more rain they won't last long. Almost 3 weeks without rain and 100+ degrees last two weeks.

Just talked to my sister, she lives near DC and she say's it looks like a bomb went off. Glad to hear that you guys are OK.

Allen is probaly happy because he can tow the sweeper around some more. :biggrin2:

Lynchburg city is the worst around here. About every 5th midtown house has been hid by trees, about every 10th one is destroyed. Fallen power lines EVERYWHERE. The power is knocked at my house and will probably be off till Saturday. Thank gosh for generators. luckily though we got away unscathed.
hope everyone else is alright. :bigeyes:

You know me too well, Sam! :biggrin2:

No kidding. I can not believe how the power company runs power lines in this area, they have lines running right through the trees. And they wonder why they have problems. When I moved here one of the first things I did to my place was put in a 20KW standby gen set. :biggrin2:

They do some crazy things here in my neck of the woods too. There is an older subdivision on the edge of town that comes to mind. Instead of cutting one particular tree down, they made about a 6x6 hole in the branches to run a line. That one tree fell and knocked out the power for the whole neighborhood. Its just ridiculous.

Thats the end of my rant. :BlahBlah:

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Hello, Still here, got power back yesterday about noon. Almost lost my meter pole, 3 truck loads of brush cut from the tree top wedged against it. Tricky getting that top cut and slid out. Old rusty 3/8 guy wire shreaded in half but held. Neighor 1/2 mile away lost his meter pole, thats where trees started jerking on the lines. We have 3 hot lines on a set of poles, pulled one off of three poles between him and me, flying loose in the woods, and others hanging low, cracked the cross tie on both ends. Cambridge thinks they had a twister, one big church collasped, roofs off NAPA and tire store, windows and walls blown out of buildings. Never seen so many trees down before. Happy to have power back and cool off, another week of cutting and cleaning up. Mike

Wild Weather? all its been here is hot .. and dry. Gald you guy are ok though!

I was at a local tractor show when the high winds hit. The majority that had awnings up at the show lost them. One shirt and hat vendor lost 30% of the items he was selling. The whole area lost power. Mine finally came back on yesterday around 4 PM. Some in my area are still without power.

Here in SE MI all we are doing is praying for rain and a relief to the oppressive heat and humidity. Pop up storms come and go but don't provide much rain or relief. We need the grass to grow so I can get more seat time, not to mention the crops!

We have had triple digits with a peak of 109* on saturday. Now entering the week right at 100* and supposed to stay there all week. Too hot out for any seat time for anytime of day here, grass has turned to dust.

Are you talking about Nashville TN or Southern IL. :bash2: :angry: :biggrin2: LOL

Our power came on about one hour ago. :beerchug:

It is turning over 100* here, all the grass and gardens around here are drying up. We rented a trash pump and filled up two 250 gallon tanks for our garden, that will keep it alive for another week. :bigeyes:

Both actually! :biggrin2: Been talking to family up there and both places are suffering. Talked to my granddad the other day and they went from 106* to 74* after a quick deep soaking thrunder storm. Only rain we have had here was enough to make the ground wet so you could tell where everyone parked their cars.

Just got pounded again here in Galax. Nasty T storm, hail, wind etc. Lost another apple tree. More seat time tomorrow with the BX. :bash2:

Thankfully we've been missing the bad stuff.

APCO is about the worst company for maintaining the right of way for their lines. I have a cousin that works for them and in the past 12 years the budget for yearly line maintenance (right of way) has been cut by 65% in southern wv/southwest va.

Here in nashville we had a freak wind blow through and toppled a few trees and bent a railroad cross bar at a perfect 90* angle yesterday.

NES or Nashville Electric Service has a terrible history of butchering trees around their lines, and even those no where close to them! Had a guy close to us once and he asked then to have one trimmed to get it out of the lines so they wouldnt get in the way. NES came out and clear cut his property, front and back! In the mid 90's was the worst as i remember several NES trucks being vandalized right in the streets, and one set on fire, with workers yelling at property owners that they have the right to take any tree they deem fit to remove. Thankfully they have been reorganized and no longer run rouge here in nashville, but they are still greatly disliked.